And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
Job 7:7 - Revised Version 1885 Oh remember that my life is wind: Mine eye shall no more see good. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 O remember that my life is wind: Mine eye shall no more see good. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Oh, remember that my life is but wind (a puff, a breath, a sob); my eye shall see good no more. American Standard Version (1901) Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good. Common English Bible Remember that my life is wind; my eyes won’t see pleasure again. Catholic Public Domain Version Remember that my life is wind, and my eye will not return to see good things. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Remember that my life is but wind: and my eyes shall not return to see good things. |
And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye trespass, I will scatter you abroad among the peoples:
Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?
I loathe my life; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity
Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good.
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: Surely they are disquieted in vain: He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Many there be that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, And that foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: Remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day.
And he remembered that they were but flesh; A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
O remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!
Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; How I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty peoples:
O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered reproach.
whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.