Job 7
7
1Human life is like forced army service,
like a life of hard manual labour,
2like slaves longing for cool shade;
like workers waiting for their pay.
3Month after month I have nothing to live for;
night after night brings me grief.
4When I lie down to sleep, the hours drag;
I toss all night and long for dawn.
5My body is full of worms;
it is covered with scabs;
pus runs out of my sores.
6My days pass by without hope,
pass faster than a weaver's shuttle.#7.6 weaver's shuttle: A small device in the loom which carries threads to and fro rapidly in weaving cloth.
7Remember, O God, my life is only a breath;
my happiness has already ended.
8You see me now, but never again.
If you look for me, I'll be gone.
9-10Like a cloud that fades and is gone,
people die and never return;
they are forgotten by all who knew them.
11No! I can't be quiet!
I am angry and bitter.
I have to speak.
12Why do you keep me under guard?
Do you think I am a sea monster?#7.12 sea monster: A reference to ancient stories in which sea monsters had to be guarded so that they would not escape and do damage.
13I lie down and try to rest;
I look for relief from my pain.
14But you — you terrify me with dreams;
you send me visions and nightmares
15until I would rather be strangled
than live in this miserable body.
16I give up; I am tired of living.
Leave me alone. My life makes no sense.
17 #
Ps 8.4; 144.3 Why are human beings so important to you?
Why pay attention to what they do?
18You inspect them every morning
and test them every minute.
19Won't you look away long enough
for me to swallow my spittle?
20Are you harmed by my sin, you jailer?
Why use me for your target practice?
Am I so great a burden to you?
21Can't you ever forgive my sin?
Can't you pardon the wrong I do?
Soon I will be in my grave,
and I'll be gone when you look for me.
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Good News Bible with Deuterocanonicals/Apocrypha. Scripture taken from the Good News Bible (r) (Today's English Version Second Edition, UK/British Edition). Copyright © 1992 British & Foreign Bible Society. Used by permission.
Job 7
7
Job Remonstrates with God
1 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth?
Are not his days also like the days of a hireling?
2As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow,
and as a hireling looketh for the reward of his work;
3so am I made to possess months of vanity,
and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
4When 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.
5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust;
my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle,
and are spent without hope.
7O remember that my life is wind:
mine eye shall no more see good.
8The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more:
thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away;
so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
10He shall return no more to his house,
neither shall his place know him any more.
11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth;
I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;
I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
12 Am I a sea, or a whale,
that thou settest a watch over me?
13When I say, My bed shall comfort me,
my couch shall ease my complaint;
14then thou scarest me with dreams,
and terrifiest me through visions:
15so that my soul chooseth strangling,
and death rather than my life.
16I loathe it; I would not live alway:
let me alone; for my days are vanity.
17 #
Ps 8.4; 144.3. What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him?
and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
18and that thou shouldest visit him every morning,
and try him every moment?
19How long wilt thou not depart from me,
nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
20I 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?
21And 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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