But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”
Job 7:8 - English Standard Version 2016 The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while your eyes are on me, I shall be gone. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: Thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more; while your eyes are upon me, I shall be gone. American Standard Version (1901) The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be. Common English Bible The eye that sees me now will no longer look on me; your eyes will be on me, and I won’t exist. Catholic Public Domain Version Neither will the sight of man gaze upon me; your eyes are upon me, and I will not endure. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Nor shall the sight of man behold me: thy eyes are upon me, and I shall be no more. |
But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”
You put my feet in the stocks and watch all my paths; you set a limit for the soles of my feet.
But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?
And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?
He will fly away like a dream and not be found; he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
The eye that saw him will see him no more, nor will his place any more behold him.
He goes to bed rich, but will do so no more; he opens his eyes, and his wealth is gone.
For then I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept; then I would have been at rest,
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.”
If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’
for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.
But he passed away, and behold, he was no more; though I sought him, he could not be found.
When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah