Job 7:1
Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And as the days of an hireling his days?
Job 7:2
As a servant desireth the shadow, And as a hireling expecteth his wage,
Job 7:3
So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me.
Job 7:4
If I lay down then I said, `When do I rise!' And evening hath been measured, And I have been full of tossings till dawn.
Job 7:5
Clothed hath been my flesh with worms, And a clod of dust, My skin hath been shrivelled and is loathsome,
Job 7:6
My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.
Job 7:7
Remember Thou that my life is a breath, Mine eye turneth not back to see good.
Job 7:8
The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes are upon me--and I am not.
Job 7:9
Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up.
Job 7:10
He turneth not again to his house, Nor doth his place discern him again.
Job 7:11
Also I--I withhold not my mouth--I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 7:12
A sea- monster am I, or a dragon, That thou settest over me a guard?
Job 7:13
When I said, `My bed doth comfort me,' He taketh away in my talking my couch.
Job 7:14
And thou hast affrighted me with dreams, And from visions thou terrifiest me,
Job 7:15
And my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than my bones.
Job 7:16
I have wasted away--not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days are vanity.
Job 7:17
What is man that Thou dost magnify him? And that Thou settest unto him Thy heart?
Job 7:18
And inspectest him in the mornings, In the evenings dost try him?
Job 7:19
How long dost Thou not look from me? Thou dost not desist till I swallow my spittle.
Job 7:20
I have sinned, what do I to Thee, O watcher of man? Why hast Thou set me for a mark to Thee, And I am for a burden to myself--and what?
Job 7:21
Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me--and I am not!