en_cjb - Job 7 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ “Human life on earth is like serving in the army; yes, we drudge through our days like a hired worker,

² like a slave longing for shade, like a worker thinking only of his wages.

³ So I am assigned months of meaninglessness; troubled nights are my lot.

⁴ When I lie down, I ask, ‘When can I get up?’ But the night is long, and I keep tossing to and fro until daybreak.

⁵ My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt, my skin forms scabs that ooze pus.

⁶ My days pass more swiftly than a weaver’s shuttle and come to their end without hope.

⁷ “Remember that my life is but a breath; my eyes will never again see good times.

⁸ The eye that now sees me will see me no more; while your eyes are on me, I will be gone.

⁹ Like a cloud dissolving and disappearing, so he who descends to Sh’ol won’t come back up.

¹⁰ He will not return again to his house, and his home will know him no more.

¹¹ “Therefore I will not restrain my mouth but will speak in my anguish of spirit and complain in my bitterness of soul.

¹² Am I the sea, or some sea monster, that you put a guard over me?

¹³ When I think that my bed will comfort me, that my couch will relieve my complaint,

¹⁴ then you terrify me with dreams and frighten me with visions.

¹⁵ I would rather be strangled; death would be better than these bones of mine.

¹⁶ I hate it! I won’t live forever, so leave me alone, for my life means nothing.

¹⁷ “What are mere mortals, that you make so much of them? Why do you keep them on your mind?

¹⁸ Why examine them every morning and test them every moment?

¹⁹ Won’t you ever take your eyes off of me, at least long enough for me to swallow my spit?

²⁰ “Suppose I do sin — how do I harm you, you scrutinizer of humanity? Why have you made me your target, so that I am a burden to you?

²¹ Why don’t you pardon my offense and take away my guilt? For soon I will lie down in the dust; you will seek me, but I will be gone.”