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Job 7

1 Human life is like forced army service, like a life of hard manual labor,

1 “Do not mortals have hard service on earth? Are not their days like those of hired laborers?

2 like a slave longing for cool shade; like a worker waiting to be paid.

2 Like a slave longing for the evening shadows, or a hired laborer waiting to be paid,

3 Month after month I have nothing to live for; night after night brings me grief.

3 so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me.

4 When I lie down to sleep, the hours drag; I toss all night and long for dawn.

4 When I lie down I think, ‘How long before I get up?’ The night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.

5 My body is full of worms; it is covered with scabs; pus runs out of my sores.

5 My body is clothed with worms and scabs, my skin is broken and festering.

6 My days pass by without hope, pass faster than a weaver's shuttle.

6 “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and they come to an end without hope.

7 Remember, O God, my life is only a breath; my happiness has already ended.

7 Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath; my eyes will never see happiness again.

8 You see me now, but never again. If you look for me, I'll be gone.

8 The eye that now sees me will see me no longer; you will look for me, but I will be no more.

9 Like a cloud that fades and is gone, we humans die and never return; we are forgotten by all who knew us.

9 As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so one who goes down to the grave does not return.

11 No! I can't be quiet! I am angry and bitter. I have to speak.

11 “Therefore I will not keep silent; I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

12 Why do you keep me under guard? Do you think I am a sea monster?

12 Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that you put me under guard?

13 I lie down and try to rest; I look for relief from my pain.

13 When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,

14 But you - you terrify me with dreams; you send me visions and nightmares

14 even then you frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

15 until I would rather be strangled than live in this miserable body.

15 so that I prefer strangling and death, rather than this body of mine.

16 I give up; I am tired of living. Leave me alone. My life makes no sense.

16 I despise my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone; my days have no meaning.

17 Why are people so important to you? Why pay attention to what they do?

17 “What is mankind that you make so much of them, that you give them so much attention,

18 You inspect them every morning and test them every minute.

18 that you examine them every morning and test them every moment?

19 Won't you look away long enough for me to swallow my spit?

19 Will you never look away from me, or let me alone even for an instant?

20 Are you harmed by my sin, you jailer? Why use me for your target practice? Am I so great a burden to you?

20 If I have sinned, what have I done to you, you who see everything we do? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you?

21 Can't you ever forgive my sin? Can't you pardon the wrong I do? Soon I will be in my grave, and I'll be gone when you look for me.

21 Why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins? For I will soon lie down in the dust; you will search for me, but I will be no more.”