Job 7 (NET)

Job 7:1¹“Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 7:2²Like a servant longing for the evening shadow, and like a hired man looking for his wages,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 7:3³thus I have been made to inherit months of futility, and nights of sorrow have been appointed to me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 7:4⁴If I lie down, I say, ‘When will I arise?’ And the night stretches on and I toss and turn restlessly until the day dawns.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 7:5⁵My body is clothed with worms and dirty scabs; my skin is broken and festering.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 7:6⁶My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end without hope.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 7:7⁷Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 7:8⁸The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more; your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 7:9⁹As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears, so the one who goes down to the grave does not come up again.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 7:10¹⁰He returns no more to his house, nor does his place of residence know him anymore.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 7:11¹¹“Therefore, I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 7:12¹²Am I the sea, or the creature of the deep, that you must put me under guard?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 7:13¹³If I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 7:14¹⁴then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 7:15¹⁵so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 7:16¹⁶I loathe it; I do not want to live forever; leave me alone, for my days are a vapor!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 7:17¹⁷“What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 7:18¹⁸And that you visit them every morning, and try them every moment?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 7:19¹⁹Will you never look away from me, will you not let me alone long enough to swallow my spittle?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 7:20²⁰If I have sinned—what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you set me as your target? Have I become a burden to you?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 7:21²¹And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s