Job 7:8

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more; your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 20:9 : 9 People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.
  • Ps 37:36 : 36 But then one passes by, and suddenly they have disappeared! I looked for them, but they could not be found.
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor.(Selah)
  • Ps 90:8-9 : 8 You are aware of our sins; you even know about our hidden sins. 9 Yes, throughout all our days we experience your raging fury; the years of our lives pass quickly, like a sigh.
  • Job 8:18 : 18 If he is uprooted from his place, then that place will disown him, saying,‘I have never seen you!’
  • Job 13:27 : 27 And you put my feet in the stocks and you watch all my movements; you put marks on the soles of my feet.
  • Job 14:3 : 3 Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

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    6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end without hope.

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  • Job 20:7-9
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    7he will perish forever, like his own excrement; those who used to see him will say,‘Where is he?’

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    9People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.

  • Job 7:9-12
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    9As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears, so the one who goes down to the grave does not come up again.

    10He returns no more to his house, nor does his place of residence know him any more.

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    10“I thought,‘In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.’

    11“I thought,‘I will no longer see the LORD in the land of the living, I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world.

    12My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life.

  • Job 19:26-27
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    26And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God,

    27whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me.

  • Job 17:7
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    7My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.

  • Job 9:11
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    11If he passes by me, I cannot see him, if he goes by, I cannot perceive him.

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    7My eyes grow dim from suffering; they grow weak because of all my enemies.

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    4I thought I had been banished from your sight, that I would never again see your holy temple!

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    5I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye has seen you.

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    21And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”

  • Job 10:18-21
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    18An Appeal for Relief“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!

    19I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!

    20Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

    21before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

  • Job 16:22
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    22For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.

  • Job 14:3
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    3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

  • Job 14:13
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    13The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!

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    10My heart beats quickly; my strength leaves me; I can hardly see.

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    17You will see a king in his splendor; you will see a wide land.

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    8Surely I am looking to you, O Sovereign LORD. In you I take shelter. Do not expose me to danger!

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    1My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.

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    15where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?

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    18If he is uprooted from his place, then that place will disown him, saying,‘I have never seen you!’

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    36But then one passes by, and suddenly they have disappeared! I looked for them, but they could not be found.

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    21For his eyes are on the ways of an individual, he observes all a person’s steps.

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    9Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress! My eyes grow dim from suffering. I have lost my strength.

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    4Look to the right and see! No one cares about me. I have nowhere to run; no one is concerned about my life.

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    4Motivations of God“Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as a human being sees?

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    17Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

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    19Will you never look away from me, will you not let me alone long enough to swallow my spittle?

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    11My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.

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    13Turn your angry gaze away from me, so I can be happy before I pass away.

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    8You cause those who know me to keep their distance; you make me an appalling sight to them. I am trapped and cannot get free.

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    19He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more. When he opens his eyes, it is all gone.

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    22I jumped to conclusions and said,“I am cut off from your presence!” But you heard my plea for mercy when I cried out to you for help.

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