| Job 7:1 |
Does not man have a term of hard service on earth? / And are his days not like the days of a hired hand? |
| Job 7:2 |
Like a servant who longs for the shade, / And like a hired hand who waits for his pay, |
| Job 7:3 |
So I am made to inherit months of vanity, / And nights of trouble are appointed to me. |
| Job 7:4 |
If I lie down, I say, / When will I arise? But the evening is long, / And I am full of tossings until the dawn. |
| Job 7:5 |
My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt clods; / My skin crusts and then oozes again. |
| Job 7:6 |
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle / And are spent without hope. |
| Job 7:7 |
Remember that my life is a breath; / My eye will not see good again. |
| Job 7:8 |
The eye of him who sees me will not look on me; / Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be. |
| Job 7:9 |
The cloud is consumed and goes away: / Likewise he who goes down into Sheol does not come up. |
| Job 7:10 |
He returns no more to his house, / Nor does his place know him anymore. |
| Job 7:11 |
For my part, I also will not restrain my mouth; / I will speak in the distress of my spirit; / I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. |
| Job 7:12 |
Am I the sea, or a sea serpent, / That You must set a watch over me? |
| Job 7:13 |
When I say, My bed will comfort me, / My couch will bear up my complaint; |
| Job 7:14 |
Then You scare me with dreams / And terrify me with visions, |
| Job 7:15 |
So that my soul would choose strangulation / [And] death rather than my bones. |
| Job 7:16 |
I loathe [life;] I would not live forever. / Leave me alone, for my days are a [mere] breath. |
| Job 7:17 |
What is mortal man that You magnify him, / And that You consider him, |
| Job 7:18 |
And that You visit him every morning, / You try him every moment? |
| Job 7:19 |
How long before You look away from me, / Before You abandon me until I swallow my spittle? |
| Job 7:20 |
[If] I have sinned, what have I done to You, O Watcher of man? / Why have You made me Your target so that I have become a burden to You? |
| Job 7:21 |
And why do You not forgive my transgression / And take away my iniquity? / For now I may lie down in the dust; / And You will seek me out, and I will not be. |