Job 7
7
1Isn’t mankind consigned to forced labor # Jb 14:14; Is 40:2 on earth?
Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
2Like a slave he longs for shade;
like a hired man he waits for his pay.
3So I have been made to inherit months of futility,
and troubled nights have been assigned to me. # Jb 30:17; Ps 6:6; 42:3
4When I lie down I think:
When will I get up?
But the evening drags on endlessly,
and I toss and turn until dawn.
5My flesh is clothed with maggots and encrusted with dirt. # Or and dirty scabs
My skin forms scabs # Lit skin hardens and then oozes. # Dt 28:35; Ps 38:5; Is 1:6
6My days pass more swiftly than a weaver’s shuttle;
they come to an end without hope. # Jb 14:19; 17:15; 19:10
7Remember that my life is but a breath.
My eye will never again see anything good. # Jb 9:25; Ps 78:39; Jms 4:14
8The eye of anyone who looks on me
will no longer see me.
Your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone. # Jb 7:21; 20:9; Ps 37:36
9As a cloud fades away and vanishes,
so the one who goes down to Sheol # Jb 11:8; 14:13; 17:13,16 will never rise again.
10He will never return to his house;
his hometown will no longer remember # Lit know him. # Jb 8:18; 20:9; Ps 103:16
11Therefore I will not restrain my mouth.
I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;
I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
12Am I the sea # Or the sea god # Jb 26:12; Ps 74:13 or a sea monster, # Ps 148:7; Is 27:1; Ezk 32:2
that You keep me under guard?
13When I say: My bed will comfort me,
and my couch will ease my complaint,
14then You frighten me with dreams,
and terrify me with visions, # Jb 4:13; 20:8; 33:15
15so that I prefer strangling # Or suffocation —
death rather than life in this body. # Lit than my bones # 1Kg 19:4; Jb 3:21; Jnh 4:3
16I give up! I will not live forever.
Leave me alone, # Jb 7:19; 10:20; Ps 39:13 for my days are a breath. # Or are futile
17What is man, that You think so highly of him
and pay so much attention to him? # Ps 8:4; 144:3; Heb 2:6
18You inspect him every morning,
and put him to the test every moment. # Ps 17:3; 73:14; 139:23
19Will You ever look away from me,
or leave me alone long enough to swallow? # Lit swallow my saliva?
20If I have sinned, what have I done to You,
Watcher of mankind?
Why have You made me Your target, # Jb 16:12; Lm 3:12
so that I have become a burden to You? # Ancient Jewish tradition, LXX; MT, Vg read myself
21Why not forgive my sin
and pardon my transgression? # Jb 11:6; 13:23; 15:5
For soon I will lie down in the grave. # Jb 17:16; 20:11; Is 26:19
You will eagerly seek me, but I will be gone. # Jb 3:13; 7:8; Ps 37:36
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Job 7
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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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