KJ3 Literal Translation
Job 7
1 Job excuses his desire of death. 12 He complains of his own restlessness, 17 and God's watchfulness.
1¶ Is there not a warfare to man on earth, and his days like the days of a hireling?
2As a servant pants for the shade, and as a hireling looks for his wages,
3so I am caused to inherit months of emptiness; and nights of trouble are appointed to me.
4When I lie down, I say, When shall I rise up? But the night is long, and I am full of tossings, until the twilight of dawn.
5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and is loathed.
6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and end without hope.
7¶ Remember that my life is a breath; my eyes shall not return to see good.
8The eye of him who sees me shall not gaze at me; Your eyes will be on me, and I will not be.
9As the cloud fades, it goes, so he who goes down to Sheol shall not come up.
10He shall not return again to his house;, and his place shall not know him any more.
11Also, I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the distress of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
12Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that You set a watch over me?
13When I say, My bed shall comfort me; my couch shall bear with my complaining;
14even You scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions;
15and my soul chooses strangling and death rather than my bones.
16I despise them; I will not live always. Cease from me, for my days are vanity.
17¶ What is man that You should magnify him, and that You should set Your heart to him,
18and visit him every morning, trying him every moment?
19How long will You not look away from me, and not leave me alone until I swallow my spittle?
20I have sinned; what do I do to You, O Watcher of man? Why have You set me as a target for You so that I am a burden on myself?
21And why do You not lift up my transgression, and make my iniquity pass away? For now I shall lie down in the dust, and You shall seek me; but I will not be.
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