King James Version (KJV)
Job 7:17
“What [is] man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?”
Verse in context — Job 7
15
So that my soul chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my life.
16
I loathe [it]; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days [are] vanity.
17
What [is] man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
18
And [that] thou shouldest visit him every morning, [and] try him every moment?
19
How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
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