RWebster - Job - 7

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

7:2  As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:

7:3  So am I made to possess months of vanity, 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 tossings to and fro to the dawning of the day.

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

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 that hath seen me shall see me no more : thy eyes are upon me, and I am not.

7:9  As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more .

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

7:11  Therefore I will not restrain 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 whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

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

7:14  Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:

7:15  So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.

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

7:17  What isman, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thy heart upon him?

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

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

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

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