English Bible
Job 7
Big screen- 1Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of a worker?
- 2As a servant earnestly desires the shadow, and as a worker looks for the reward of his work:
- 3So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
- 4When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings back and forth unto the dawning of the day.
- 5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
- 6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
- 7O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
- 8The eye of him that has seen me shall see me no more: yours eyes are upon me, and I am not.
- 9As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away: so he that goes down to the grave shall come up no more.
- 10He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
- 11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
- 12Am I a sea, or a whale, that you set a watch over me?
- 13When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints;
- 14Then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:
- 15So that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life.
- 16I loathe it; I would not live always: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
- 17What is man, that you should magnify him? and that you should set yours heart upon him?
- 18And that you should visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
- 19How long will you not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
- 20I have sinned; what shall I do unto you, O you preserver of men? why have you set me as a mark against you, so that I am a burden to myself?
- 21And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.