Job 7
1Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? 1 Are not his days also like the days of a hireling? 1
2As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, 1 And as a hireling looketh for the reward of his work: 1
3So am I made to possess months of vanity, 1 And wearisome nights are appointed to me. 1
4When I lie down, I say, 1 When shall I arise, and the night be gone? 1 And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day. 1
5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; 1 My skin is broken, and become loathsome. 1
6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, 1 And are spent without hope. 1
7O remember that my life is wind: 1 Mine eye shall no more see good. 1
8The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: 1 Thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. 1
9As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: 1 So he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. 1
10He shall return no more to his house, 1 Neither shall his place know him any more. 1
11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; 1 I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; 1 I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. 1
12Am I a sea, or a whale, 1 That thou settest a watch over me? 1
13When I say, My bed shall comfort me, 1 My couch shall ease my complaint; 1
14Then thou scarest me with dreams, 1 And terrifiest me through visions: 1
15So that my soul chooseth strangling, 1 And death rather than my life. 1
16I loathe it; I would not live alway: 1 Let me alone; for my days are vanity. 1
17What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? 1 And that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? 1
18And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, 1 And try him every moment? 1
19How long wilt thou not depart from me, 1 Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? 1
20I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, 1 O thou preserver of men? 1 Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, 1 So that I am a burden to myself? 1
21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, 1 And take away mine iniquity? 1 For now shall I sleep in the dust; 1 And thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.