Job 7 - New International Version (NIV)

7 “Do not mortals have hard service(A) on earth?(B)
Are not their days like those of hired laborers?(C)
2 Like a slave longing for the evening shadows,(D)
or a hired laborer waiting to be paid,(E)
3 so I have been allotted months of futility,
and nights of misery have been assigned to me.(F)
4 When I lie down I think, ‘How long before I get up?’(G)
The night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.(H)
5 My body is clothed with worms(I) and scabs,
my skin is broken and festering.(J)

6 “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,(K)
and they come to an end without hope.(L)
7 Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath;(M)
my eyes will never see happiness again.(N)
8 The eye that now sees me will see me no longer;
you will look for me, but I will be no more.(O)
9 As a cloud vanishes(P) and is gone,
so one who goes down to the grave(Q) does not return.(R)
10 He will never come to his house again;
his place(S) will know him no more.(T)

11 “Therefore I will not keep silent;(U)
I will speak out in the anguish(V) of my spirit,
I will complain(W) in the bitterness of my soul.(X)
12 Am I the sea,(Y) or the monster of the deep,(Z)
that you put me under guard?(AA)
13 When I think my bed will comfort me
and my couch will ease my complaint,(AB)
14 even then you frighten me with dreams
and terrify(AC) me with visions,(AD)
15 so that I prefer strangling and death,(AE)
rather than this body of mine.(AF)
16 I despise my life;(AG) I would not live forever.(AH)
Let me alone;(AI) my days have no meaning.(AJ)

17 “What is mankind that you make so much of them,
that you give them so much attention,(AK)
18 that you examine them every morning(AL)
and test them(AM) every moment?(AN)
19 Will you never look away from me,(AO)
or let me alone even for an instant?(AP)
20 If I have sinned, what have I done to you,(AQ)
you who see everything we do?
Why have you made me your target?(AR)
Have I become a burden to you?[a](AS)
21 Why do you not pardon my offenses
and forgive my sins?(AT)
For I will soon lie down in the dust;(AU)
you will search for me, but I will be no more.”(AV)

Footnotes

  1. Job 7:20 A few manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition and Septuagint; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text I have become a burden to myself.

Cross references

  1. Job 7:1 : Job 14:14; Isa 40:2
  2. Job 7:1 : S Job 5:7
  3. Job 7:1 : S Lev 25:50
  4. Job 7:2 : Job 14:1; Ecc 2:23
  5. Job 7:2 : S Lev 19:13; S Job 14:6
  6. Job 7:3 : Job 16:7; Ps 6:6; 42:3; 56:8; Ecc 4:1; Isa 16:9; Jer 9:1; La 1:2, 16
  7. Job 7:4 : Dt 28:67
  8. Job 7:4 : ver 13-14
  9. Job 7:5 : Job 17:14; 21:26; 24:20; 25:6; Isa 14:11
  10. Job 7:5 : S Dt 28:35
  11. Job 7:6 : Job 9:25; Ps 39:5; Isa 38:12
  12. Job 7:6 : Job 13:15; 14:19; 17:11, 15; 19:10; Ps 37:4; 52:9
  13. Job 7:7 : ver 16; Ge 27:46; Ps 39:4, 5, 11; 62:9; 78:39; 89:47; 144:4; Ecc 7:15; S Jas 4:14
  14. Job 7:7 : Job 10:20
  15. Job 7:8 : S Job 3:13; 8:18; 15:29; 20:7, 9, 21; 27:17; Ps 37:36; 103:16; Isa 41:12; Jn 16:16; Ac 20:25
  16. Job 7:9 : S Job 3:25
  17. Job 7:9 : S Job 3:13; 11:8; 14:13; 17:16; 26:6; 38:17; Am 9:2
  18. Job 7:9 : 2Sa 12:23
  19. Job 7:10 : Job 18:21; 21:18; 27:21, 23; Ps 58:9; Jer 18:17; 19:8
  20. Job 7:10 : S ver 8; Ps 37:10; 104:35
  21. Job 7:11 : Job 9:35; 13:13; Ps 22:2; 40:9
  22. Job 7:11 : Job 10:1; Ps 6:3; Isa 38:15, 17
  23. Job 7:11 : ver 13; Job 9:27; 21:4; 23:2
  24. Job 7:11 : S 1Sa 1:10; S Job 6:3
  25. Job 7:12 : Job 38:8-11
  26. Job 7:12 : S Ge 1:21
  27. Job 7:12 : ver 20; Isa 1:14
  28. Job 7:13 : S ver 11
  29. Job 7:14 : Job 9:34
  30. Job 7:14 : S Ge 41:8; S Job 3:26
  31. Job 7:15 : 1Ki 19:4; Jnh 4:3
  32. Job 7:15 : Job 6:9; Rev 9:6
  33. Job 7:16 : S 1Ki 19:4; Job 9:21
  34. Job 7:16 : S Job 3:22
  35. Job 7:16 : ver 19; Job 10:20; Ps 39:13
  36. Job 7:16 : S ver 7
  37. Job 7:17 : S Job 4:19; 22:2; Ps 8:4; 144:3; Heb 2:6
  38. Job 7:18 : Ps 73:14
  39. Job 7:18 : Job 23:10; Ps 139:23
  40. Job 7:18 : Job 14:3; Ps 17:3; 26:2; 66:10; 139:1-6; 143:2
  41. Job 7:19 : S ver 16
  42. Job 7:19 : Job 9:18; 13:26; 14:6; 27:2; Ps 139:7
  43. Job 7:20 : Job 35:6; Jer 7:19
  44. Job 7:20 : S Job 6:4
  45. Job 7:20 : S ver 12
  46. Job 7:21 : Job 9:28; 10:14; 16:6; Ps 119:120; Isa 43:25; Jer 31:34; Heb 1:3
  47. Job 7:21 : S Ge 3:19; Job 10:9; 34:15; Ps 7:5; 22:15; 90:3; 104:29
  48. Job 7:21 : S ver 8; S Job 3:13

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