Job 7
:1
7:1
Does not man have a term of hard service on earth?
And are his
adays not like the days of a hired hand?
Job 7
:2
7:2
Like a servant who longs for the shade,
And like a hired hand who waits for his pay,
Job 7
:3
7:3
So I am made to inherit months of vanity,
And nights of trouble are appointed to me.
Job 7
:4
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
7:5
My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt clods;
My skin crusts and then oozes again.
Job 7
:6
7:6
My adays are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle
And are spent
1without hope.
Job 7
:7
7:7
Remember that my life is a
abreath;
My eye will not see good again.
Job 7
:8
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
7:9
The cloud is consumed and
agoes away:
Likewise he who goes down into
bSheol does not come up.
Job 7
:10
7:10
He areturns no more to his house,
Nor does his place know him anymore.
Job 7
:11
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
7:12
Am I the sea, or a sea serpent,
That You must set a watch over me?
Job 7
:13
7:13
When I say, My bed will comfort me,
My couch will bear up my complaint;
Job 7
:14
7:14
Then You scare me with dreams
And terrify me with visions,
Job 7
:15
7:15
So that my soul would choose strangulation
And death rather than my bones.
Job 7
:16
7:16
I 1loathe life; I would not live forever.
Leave me alone, for my days are a
mere breath.
Job 7
:17
7:17
aWhat is
bmortal man that You magnify him,
And that You consider him,
Job 7
:18
7:18
And that You visit him every morning,
You try him every moment?
Job 7
:19
7:19
How long before You look away from me,
Before You abandon me until I swallow my spittle?
Job 7
:20
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
7:21
And why do You not forgive my transgression
And take away my iniquity?
For now I may lie down in the
adust;
And You will seek me out, and I will not be.
