AB - Job - 7

7:1  Is not the life of man upon earth a state of trial? And his existence as that of a hireling by the day?

7:2  Or as a servant that fears his master, and one who has grasped a shadow? Or as a hireling waiting for his pay?

7:3  So have I also endured months of vanity, and nights of pain have been appointed me.

7:4  Whenever I lie down, I say, When will it be day? And whenever I rise up, again I say when will it be evening? And I am full of pains from evening to morning.

7:5  And my body is covered with loathsome worms; and I waste away, scraping off clods of dust from my eruption.

7:6  And my life is lighter than a word, and has perished in vain hope.

7:7  Remember then that my life is breath, and my eye shall not yet again see good.

7:8  The eye of him that sees me shall not see me again: your eyes are upon me, and I am no more.

7:9  I am as a cloud that is cleared away from the sky: for if a man should go down to the grave, he shall not come up again.

7:10  And he shall surely not return to his own house, neither shall his place know him any more.

7:11  Then neither will I refrain my mouth; I will speak being in distress; being in anguish I will disclose the bitterness of my soul.

7:12  Am I a sea, or a serpent, that you have set a watch over me?

7:13  I said that my bed should comfort me, and I would privately counsel with myself on my couch.

7:14  You scare me with dreams, and terrify me with visions.

7:15  You will separate life from my spirit; and yet keep my bones from death.

7:16  For I shall not live forever, that I should patiently endure: depart from me, for my life is vain.

7:17  For what is man, that You have magnified him? Or that You give heed to him?

7:18  Will You visit him till the morning, and judge him till the time of rest?

7:19  How long do You not let me alone, nor let me go, until I shall swallow down my spittle?

7:20  If I have sinned, what shall I be able to do, O You that understand the mind of men? why have You made me as Your accuser, and why am I a burden to You?

7:21  Why have You not forgotten my iniquity, and purged my sin? But now I shall depart to the earth, and in the morning I am no more.