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Job 7
World English Bible British Edition · Berean Standard Bible
“Isn’t a man forced to labour on earth?
“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow,
Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages.
so I am made to possess months of misery,
So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed to me.
When I lie down, I say,
When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust.
My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
Oh remember that my life is a breath.
Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.
The eye of him who sees me will see me no more.
The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.
As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away,
As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.
He will return no more to his house,
He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.
“Therefore I will not keep silent.
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.
Am I a sea, or a sea monster,
Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that You must keep me under guard?
When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me.
When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,
so that my soul chooses strangling,
so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.
I loathe my life.
I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
What is man, that you should magnify him,
What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,
that you should visit him every morning,
that You attend to him every morning, and test him every moment?
How long will you not look away from me,
Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?
If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men?
If I have sinned, what have I done to You (note: LXX; Hebrew to myself), O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?
Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity?
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.”