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World English Bible

Job 7 (WEBP)

[1] “Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?
[2] As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,
[3] so I am made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.
[4] When I lie down, I say, ‘When will I arise, and the night be gone?’ I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.
[5] My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
[6] My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
[7] Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.
[8] The eye of him who sees me will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.
[9] As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.
[10] He will return no more to his house, neither will his place know him any more.
[11] “Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
[12] Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?
[13] When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint,’
[14] then you scare me with dreams and terrify me through visions,
[15] so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.
[16] I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
[17] What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,
[18] that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?
[19] How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?
[20] If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?
[21] Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

Job 7:9 Sheol is the place of the dead.

Scripture quotations are taken from The World English Bible™ of eBible.org, 2020 stable text edition. It is in the public domain.

King James w/Strong’s #s

Job 7 (KJVS)

[1] Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? Are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
[2] As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, And as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
[3] So am I made to possess months of vanity, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.
[4] When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? 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; My skin is broken, and become loathsome.
[6] My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, And are spent without hope.
[7] O remember that my life is wind: Mine eye shall no more see good.
[8] The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: Thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
[9] As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: So he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
[10] He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more.
[11] Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
[12] Am I a sea, or a whale, That thou settest a watch over me?
[13] When I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint;
[14] Then thou scarest me with dreams, And terrifiest me through visions:
[15] So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than my life.
[16] I loathe it; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.
[17] What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? And that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
[18] And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, And try him every moment?
[19] How long wilt thou not depart from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
[20] I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, So that I am a burden to myself?
[21] And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, And take away mine iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust; And thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

Job 7:1 Or, a warfare
Job 7:2 Heb. gapeth after
Job 7:4 Heb. the evening be measured
Job 7:7a Heb. shall not return
Job 7:7b To see, that is, to enjoy
Job 7:8 That is, I can live no longer

Scripture quotations from The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible, using the standardized text of 1769. It is in the public domain.

Greek Bible (LXX/BYZ)

Job 7 (BYZ)

[1] Πότερον () οὐχὶ () πειρατήριόν ἐστιν () ὁ () βίος () ἀνθρώπου () ἐπὶ () τῆς () γῆς () καὶ () ὥσπερ () μισθίου () αὐθημερινοῦ ἡ () ζωὴ () αὐτοῦ; ()
[2] Ἢ () ὥσπερ () θεράπων () δεδοικὼς τὸν () κύριον () αὐτοῦ () καὶ () τετευχὼς () σκιᾶς () ἢ () ὥσπερ () μισθωτὸς () ἀναμένων () τὸν () μισθὸν () αὐτοῦ. ()
[3] Οὕτως () κἀγὼ () ὑπέμεινα () μῆνας () κενούς, () νύκτες () δὲ () ὀδυνῶν () δεδομέναι () μοί () εἰσιν. ()
[4] Ἐὰν () κοιμηθῶ, () λέγω () Πότε () ἡμέρα; () Ὡς () δ’ () ἂν () ἀναστῶ, () πάλιν () Πότε () ἑσπέρα; () Πλήρης () δὲ () γίνομαι () ὀδυνῶν () ἀπὸ () ἑσπέρας () ἕως () πρωί. ()
[5] Φύρεται δέ () μου () τὸ () σῶμα () ἐν () σαπρίᾳ σκωλήκων, () τήκω () δὲ () βώλακας γῆς () ἀπὸ () ἰχῶρος ξύων.
[6] Ὁ () δὲ () βίος () μού () ἐστιν () ἐλαφρότερος () λαλιᾶς, () ἀπόλωλεν () δὲ () ἐν () κενῇ () ἐλπίδι. ()
[7] Μνήσθητι () οὖν () ὅτι () πνεῦμά () μου () ἡ () ζωὴ () καὶ () οὐκέτι () ἐπανελεύσεται () ὁ () ὀφθαλμός () μου () ἰδεῖν () ἀγαθόν. ()
[8] Οὐ () περιβλέψεταί () με () ὀφθαλμὸς () ὁρῶντός με· () οἱ () ὀφθαλμοί () σου () ἐν () ἐμοί, () καὶ () οὐκέτι () εἰμὶ ()
[9] ὥσπερ () νέφος () ἀποκαθαρθὲν ἀπ’ () οὐρανοῦ. () Ἐὰν () γὰρ () ἄνθρωπος () καταβῇ () εἰς () ᾅδην, () οὐκέτι () μὴ () ἀναβῇ ()
[10] οὐδ’ () οὐ () μὴ () ἐπιστρέψῃ () ἔτι () εἰς () τὸν () ἴδιον () οἶκον, () οὐδὲ () μὴ () ἐπιγνῷ () αὐτὸν () ἔτι () ὁ () τόπος () αὐτοῦ. ()
[11] Ἀτὰρ οὖν () οὐδὲ () ἐγὼ () φείσομαι () τῷ () στόματί () μου, () λαλήσω () ἐν () ἀνάγκῃ () ὤν, () ἀνοίξω () πικρίαν () ψυχῆς () μου () συνεχόμενος. ()
[12] Πότερον () θάλασσά () εἰμι () ἢ () δράκων, () ὅτι () κατέταξας ἐπ’ () ἐμὲ () φυλακήν; ()
[13] Εἶπα () ὅτι () Παρακαλέσει () με () ἡ () κλίνη () μου, () ἀνοίσω () δὲ () πρὸς () ἐμαυτὸν () ἰδίᾳ () λόγον () τῇ () κοίτῃ () μου· ()
[14] ἐκφοβεῖς () με () ἐνυπνίοις () καὶ () ἐν () ὁράμασίν () με () καταπλήσσεις.
[15] Ἀπαλλάξεις () ἀπὸ () πνεύματός () μου () τὴν () ψυχήν () μου, () ἀπὸ () δὲ () θανάτου () τὰ () ὀστᾶ () μου. ()
[16] Οὐ () γὰρ () εἰς () τὸν () αἰῶνα () ζήσομαι, () ἵνα () μακροθυμήσω· () ἀπόστα () ἀπ’ () ἐμοῦ, () κενὸς () γάρ () μου () ὁ () βίος. ()
[17] Τί () γάρ () ἐστιν () ἄνθρωπος, () ὅτι () ἐμεγάλυνας () αὐτὸν () ἢ () ὅτι () προσέχεις () τὸν () νοῦν () εἰς () αὐτὸν ()
[18] ἢ () ἐπισκοπὴν () αὐτοῦ () ποιήσῃ () ἕως () τὸ () πρωῒ () καὶ () εἰς () ἀνάπαυσιν () αὐτὸν () κρινεῖς; ()
[19] Ἕως () τίνος () οὐκ () ἐᾷς () με () οὐδὲ () προίῃ με, () ἕως () ἂν () καταπίω () τὸν () πτύελόν μου () ἐν () ὀδύνῃ; ()
[20] Εἰ () ἐγὼ () ἥμαρτον, () τί () δύναμαί () σοι () πρᾶξαι, () ὁ () ἐπιστάμενος () τὸν () νοῦν () τῶν () ἀνθρώπων; () Διὰ () τί () ἔθου () με () κατεντευκτήν σου, () εἰμὶ () δὲ () ἐπὶ () σοὶ () φορτίον; ()
[21] Καὶ () διὰ () τί () οὐκ () ἐποιήσω () τῆς () ἀνομίας () μου () λήθην () καὶ () καθαρισμὸν () τῆς () ἁμαρτίας () μου; () Νυνὶ () δὲ () εἰς () γῆν () ἀπελεύσομαι, () ὀρθρίζων () δὲ () οὐκέτι () εἰμί. ()

Old Testament scripture quotations and versification from Septuaginta, edited by Alfred Rahlfs (Stuttgart: Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1935). New Testament quotations are from the Byzantine Text (Guardian Press, LLC, Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform, 2026). Both are in the public domain.