ACV - Job - 7

7:1  Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?

7:2  As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, and as a hireling who looks for his wages,

7:3  so I am made to possess months of misery, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

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

7:5  My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

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

7:7  O remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.

7:8  The eye of him who sees me shall behold me no more. Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.

7:9  As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.

7:10  He shall return no more to his house, nor shall his place know him any more.

7:11  Therefore I will not refrain my mouth. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

7:12  Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that thou set a watch over me?

7:13  When I say, My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint.

7:14  Then thou scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions,

7:15  so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than these my bones.

7:16  I loathe my life. I would not live always. Let me alone, for my days are vanity.

7:17  What is man, that thou should magnify him, and that thou should set thy mind upon him,

7:18  and that thou should visit him every morning, and try him every moment?

7:19  How long will thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

7:20  If I have sinned, what do I do to thee, O thou watcher of men? Why have thou set me as a mark for thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

7:21  And why do thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie down in the dust, and thou will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.