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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  • Job 7:6-7
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    6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end without hope.

    7 Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.

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

    8 Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.

    9 People 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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    9 As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears, so the one who goes down to the grave does not come up again.

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

    11 Job Remonstrates with God“Therefore, I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

    12 Am I the sea, or the creature of the deep, that you must put me under guard?

  • Isa 38:10-12
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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.

    12 My 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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    26 And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God,

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

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

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

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

  • Job 23:8-9
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    8 The Inaccessibility and Power of God“If I go to the east, he is not there, and to the west, yet I do not perceive him.

    9 In the north when he is at work, I do not see him; when he turns to the south, I see no trace of him.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 13 The 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!

  • 16 my face is reddened because of weeping, and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 22 I 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.

  • 20 But the eyes of the wicked fail, and escape eludes them; their one hope is to breathe their last.”

  • 23 Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back, but my face must not be seen.”