The Book of Job

Chapter-7

Job 7:1 The life of a man on the earth is a battle, and his days are like the days of a hired hand.

 

Job 7:2 Just as a servant desires the shade, and just as the hired hand looks forward to the end of his work,

 

Job 7:3 so also have I had empty months and have counted my burdensome nights.

 

Job 7:4 If I lie down to sleep, I will say, “When will I rise?” And next I will hope for the evening and will be filled with sorrows even until darkness.

 

Job 7:5 My flesh is clothed with particles of rottenness and filth; my skin is dried up and tightened.

 

Job 7:6 My days have passed by more quickly than threads are cut by a weaver, and they have been consumed without any hope.

 

Job 7:7 Remember that my life is wind, and my eye will not return to see good things.

 

Job 7:8 Neither will the sight of man gaze upon me; your eyes are upon me, and I will not endure.

 

Job 7:9 Just as a cloud is consumed and passes away, so he who descends to hell will not ascend.

 

Job 7:10 He will not return again to his house, nor will his own place know him any longer.

 

Job 7:11 And because of this, I will not restrain my mouth. I will speak in the affliction of my spirit. I will converse from the bitterness of my soul.

 

Job 7:12 Am I an ocean or a whale, that you have encircled me in a prison?

 

Job 7:13 If I say, “My bed will comfort me, and I will find rest, speaking with myself on my blanket,”

 

Job 7:14 then you will frighten me with dreams, and strike dread through visions,

 

Job 7:15 so that, because of these things, my soul would choose hanging, and my bones, death.

 

Job 7:16 I despair; by no means will I live any longer. Spare me, for my days are nothing.

 

Job 7:17 What is man, that you should praise him? Or why do you place your heart near him?

 

Job 7:18 You visit him at dawn, and you test him unexpectedly.

 

Job 7:19 How long will you not spare me, nor release me to ingest my saliva?

 

Job 7:20 I have sinned; what should I do for you, O keeper of men? Why have you set me against you, so that I have become burdensome even to myself?

 

Job 7:21 Why do you not steal away my sin, and why do you not sweep away my iniquity? Behold, now I will sleep in the dust, and if you seek me in the morning, I will not remain.