Job 7:1-21
7 Is there not a warfare to a mortal upon earth? And as the days of a hireling are not his days?
2 As a bondman panteth for the shadow And as a hireling longeth for his wage
3 So have I been made to inherit months of calamity, And nights of weariness have been appointed me.
4 As soon as I lie down I say, When shall I arise? yet he lengtheneth out the evening, And I am wearied with tossings until the breeze of twilight.
5 My flesh is clothed with worms and a coating of dust, My skin hath hardened, and then run afresh:
6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, And they are spent without hope.
7 Remember thou that a wind is my life, Not again shall mine eye see blessing:
8 Nor shall see me—the eye that used to behold me, Thine eyes are upon me and I am not.
9 A cloud faileth and is gone, So he that descendeth to hades shall not come up:
10 He shall not return again to his house, And his own place shall be acquainted with him no more.
11 I also cannot restrain my mouth,—I must speak in the anguish of my spirit, I must find utterance in the bitterness of my soul.
12 Am I a sea or a sea-monster,—That thou shouldst set over me a watch?
13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall help to carry my complaint
14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, And by visions dost thou terrify me:
15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than [these] my bones!
16 I am wasted away, Not to times age-abiding can I live, Let me alone, For a breath are my days.
17 What is a mortal That thou shouldst nurture him? Or that thou shouldst fix upon him thy mind?
18 That thou shouldst inspect him morning by morning, Moment by moment shouldst test him?
19 How long wilt thou not look away from me? Wilt thou not let me alone till I can swallow my spittle?
20 I have sinned, What can I do for thee, thou watcher of men? Wherefore hast thou set me as thine object of attack, Or have I become unto thee a burden?
21 And why wilt thou not remove my transgression And take away mine iniquity? For now in the dust should I lie down, And thou shouldst seek me diligently and I should not be.
