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Job 7

New Revised Standard NRS

1 "Do not human beings have a hard service on earth, and are not their days like the days of a laborer?

2 Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like laborers who look for their wages,

3 so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.

4 When I lie down I say, "When shall I rise?' But the night is long, and I am full of tossing until dawn.

5 My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out again.

6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and come to their end without hope.

7 "Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.

8 The eye that beholds me will see me no more; while your eyes are upon me, I shall be gone.

9 As the cloud fades and vanishes, so those who go down to Sheol do not come up;

10 they return no more to their houses, nor do their places know them any more.

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.

12 Am I the Sea, or the Dragon, that you set a guard over me?

13 When I say, "My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,'

14 then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

15 so that I would choose strangling and death rather than this body.

16 I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone, for my days are a breath.

17 What are human beings, that you make so much of them, that you set your mind on them,

18 visit them every morning, test them every moment?

19 Will you not look away from me for a while, let me alone until I swallow my spittle?

20 If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of humanity? Why have you made me your target? Why have I become a burden to you?

21 Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be."

The Message Bible MSG

1 "Human life is a struggle, isn't it? It's a life sentence to hard labor.

2 Like field hands longing for quitting time and working stiffs with nothing to hope for but payday,

3 I'm given a life that meanders and goes nowhere - months of aimlessness, nights of misery!

4 I go to bed and think, 'How long till I can get up?' I toss and turn as the night drags on - and I'm fed up!

5 I'm covered with maggots and scabs. My skin gets scaly and hard, then oozes with pus.

6 My days come and go swifter than the click of knitting needles, and then the yarn runs out - an unfinished life!

7 "God, don't forget that I'm only a puff of air! These eyes have had their last look at goodness.

8 And your eyes have seen the last of me; even while you're looking, there'll be nothing left to look at.

9 When a cloud evaporates, it's gone for good; those who go to the grave never come back.

10 They don't return to visit their families; never again will friends drop in for coffee.

11 "And so I'm not keeping one bit of this quiet, I'm laying it all out on the table; my complaining to high heaven is bitter, but honest.

12 Are you going to put a muzzle on me, the way you quiet the sea and still the storm?

13 If I say, 'I'm going to bed, then I'll feel better. A little nap will lift my spirits,'

14 You come and so scare me with nightmares and frighten me with ghosts

15 That I'd rather strangle in the bedclothes than face this kind of life any longer.

16 I hate this life! Who needs any more of this? Let me alone! There's nothing to my life - it's nothing but smoke.

17 "What are mortals anyway, that you bother with them, that you even give them the time of day?

18 That you check up on them every morning, looking in on them to see how they're doing?

19 Let up on me, will you? Can't you even let me spit in peace?

20 Even suppose I'd sinned - how would that hurt you? You're responsible for every human being. Don't you have better things to do than pick on me? Why make a federal case out of me?

21 Why don't you just forgive my sins and start me off with a clean slate? The way things are going, I'll soon be dead. You'll look high and low, but I won't be around."