A Certain Time

From the words spoken by Job after  

 Job initially spoke, and Job's friend Eliphaz 

spoke, when Job was in the midst of suffering:

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling? As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as a hireling looketh for the reward of his work: So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day. My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good. The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more. 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. Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; Then thou  scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. I loathe it; I would not man live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity. What is  man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment? How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself? And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.-Job 7:1-21/the complete chapter

Reference Information: 

depart = tiseh = shaah = look away, gaze

mark = lemipga = miphga/paga = target, obstacle 

vanity = hebel = a breath, vapor,emptiness

visit = wattipqedennu = paqad = attend to, oversee, appoint

Reference Scriptures:

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.-Job 2:11

Then Job answered and said,-Job 9:1...Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.-Job 9:25

Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.-Job 14:1...Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;-Job 14:5 

O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.-Psalm 8:1...What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?-Psalm 8:4

Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?-Psalm 89:47

LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him!

or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!

-Psalm 144:3

And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,-Luke 3:23...Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.-Luke 3:38

Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.-James 4:14

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