Job 7 - American Standard Version 2015

¹ Is there not a warfare to man upon earth?\par\tab And are not his days like the days of a hireling?

² As a servant that earnestly desireth the shadow,\par\tab And as a hireling that looketh for his wages:

³ So am I made to possess months of misery,\par\tab And wearisome nights are appointed to me.

⁴ When I lie down, I say,\par\tab When shall I arise, and the night be gone?\par\tab And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

⁵ My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust;\par\tab My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh.

⁶ My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle,\par\tab And are spent without hope.

⁷ Oh remember that my life is a breath:\par\tab Mine eye shall no more see good.

⁸ The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more;\par\tab Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.

⁹ As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away,\par\tab So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.

¹⁰ He shall return no more to his house,\par\tab Neither shall his place know him any more.\par

¹¹ Therefore I will not refrain my mouth;\par\tab I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;\par\tab I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

¹² Am I a sea, or a sea-monster,\par\tab That thou settest a watch over me?

¹³ When I say, My bed shall comfort me,\par\tab My couch shall ease my complaint;

¹⁴ Then thou scarest me with dreams,\par\tab And terrifiest me through visions:

¹⁵ So that my soul chooseth strangling,\par\tab And death rather than {\i these} my bones.

¹⁶ I loathe {\i my life}; I would not live alway:\par\tab Let me alone; for my days are vanity.

¹⁷ What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him,\par\tab And that thou shouldest set thy mind upon him,

¹⁸ And that thou shouldest visit him every morning,\par\tab And try him every moment?

¹⁹ How long wilt thou not look away from me,\par\tab Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

²⁰ If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men?\par\tab Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee,\par\tab So that I am a burden to myself?

²¹ And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity?\par\tab For now shall I lie down in the dust;\par\tab And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.\par