Job 7 – New International Version (NIV)
- “Do not mortals have hard service on earth? Are not their days like those of hired laborers?
- Like a slave longing for the evening shadows, or a hired laborer waiting to be paid,
- so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me.
- When I lie down I think, ‘How long before I get up?’ The night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.
- My body is clothed with worms and scabs, my skin is broken and festering.
- “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and they come to an end without hope.
- Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath; my eyes will never see happiness again.
- The eye that now sees me will see me no longer; you will look for me, but I will be no more.
- As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so one who goes down to the grave does not return.
- He will never come to his house again; his place will know him no more.
- “Therefore I will not keep silent; I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
- Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that you put me under guard?
- When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,
- even then you frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
- so that I prefer strangling and death, rather than this body of mine.
- I despise my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone; my days have no meaning.
- “What is mankind that you make so much of them, that you give them so much attention,
- that you examine them every morning and test them every moment?
- Will you never look away from me, or let me alone even for an instant?
- If I have sinned, what have I done to you, you who see everything we do? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you?[a]
- Why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins? For I will soon lie down in the dust; you will search for me, but I will be no more.”
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Job 7 – King James Version (KJV)
- 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 an 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 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 mine iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust; And thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
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