The Book of Job

7:1 Is there not a warfare to man upon earth?

 And are not his days like the days of a hireling?

 ^7:2As a servant that earnestly desireth the shadow,

 And as a hireling that looketh for his wages:

 ^7:3So am I made to possess months of misery,

 And wearisome nights are appointed to me.

 ^7:4When 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.

 ^7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust;

 My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh.

 ^7:6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle,

 And are spent without hope.

 ^7:7Oh remember that my life is a breath:

 Mine eye shall no more see good.

 ^7:8The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more;

 Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.

 ^7:9As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away,

 So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.

 ^7:10He shall return no more to his house,

 Neither shall his place know him any more.
 
 

 ^7:11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth;

 I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;

 I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

 ^7:12Am I a sea, or a sea-monster,

 That thou settest a watch over me?

 ^7:13When I say, My bed shall comfort me,

 My couch shall ease my complaint;

 ^7:14Then thou scarest me with dreams,

 And terrifiest me through visions:

 ^7:15So that my soul chooseth strangling,

 And death rather than these my bones.

 ^7:16I loathe my life; I would not live alway:

 Let me alone; for my days are vanity.

 ^7:17What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him,

 And that thou shouldest set thy mind upon him,

 ^7:18And that thou shouldest visit him every morning,

 And try him every moment?

 ^7:19How long wilt thou not look away from me,

 Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

 ^7:20If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men?

 Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee,

 So that I am a burden to myself?

 ^7:21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity?

 For now shall I lie down in the dust;

 And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.