7Job 7

1Is there not an appointed time to man on earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?Select Job 7:1

2As a servant earnestly desires the shadow, and as an hireling looks for the reward of his work:Select Job 7:2

3So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.Select Job 7:3

4When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro to the dawning of the day.Select Job 7:4

5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.Select Job 7:5

6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.Select Job 7:6

7O remember that my life is wind: my eye shall no more see good.Select Job 7:7

8The eye of him that has seen me shall see me no more: your eyes are on me, and I am not.Select Job 7:8

9As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away: so he that goes down to the grave shall come up no more.Select Job 7:9

10He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.Select Job 7:10

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.Select Job 7:11

12Am I a sea, or a whale, that you set a watch over me?Select Job 7:12

13When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints;Select Job 7:13

14Then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:Select Job 7:14

15So that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life.Select Job 7:15

16I loathe it; I would not live always: let me alone; for my days are vanity.Select Job 7:16

17What is man, that you should magnify him? and that you should set your heart on him?Select Job 7:17

18And that you should visit him every morning, and try him every moment?Select Job 7:18

19How long will you not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?Select Job 7:19

20I have sinned; what shall I do to you, O you preserver of men? why have you set me as a mark against you, so that I am a burden to myself?Select Job 7:20

21And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.Select Job 7:21