Job 7:1 (BSB)
“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?

Job 7:2 (BSB)
Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages.

Job 7:3 (BSB)
So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.

Job 7:4 (BSB)
When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.

Job 7:5 (BSB)
My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.

Job 7:6 (BSB)
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.

Job 7:7 (BSB)
Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.

Job 7:8 (BSB)
The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.

Job 7:9 (BSB)
As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.

Job 7:10 (BSB)
He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.

Job 7:11 (BSB)
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.

Job 7:12 (BSB)
Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that You must keep me under guard?

Job 7:13 (BSB)
When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,

Job 7:14 (BSB)
then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

Job 7:15 (BSB)
so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.

Job 7:16 (BSB)
I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

Job 7:17 (BSB)
What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,

Job 7:18 (BSB)
that You attend to him every morning, and test him every moment?

Job 7:19 (BSB)
Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?

Job 7:20 (BSB)
If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?

Job 7:21 (BSB)
Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
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