Job 7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Job 7Job: My Suffering Is without End

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7 Job 9.25; Ps 78.39 “Remember that my life is a breath;

my eye will never again see good.

8 v 21 ; Job 20.9The eye that beholds me will see me no more;

while your eyes are upon me, I shall be gone.

9 2 Sam 12.23; Job 11.8; 30.15 As the cloud fades and vanishes,

so those who go down to Sheol do not come up;

10 Job 10.21; Ps 103.16 they return no more to their houses,

nor do their places know them any more.

11 1 Sam 1.10; Ps 40.9 “Therefore I will not restrain my mouth;

I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;

I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

12 Ezek 32.2, 3 Am I the Sea or the Dragon

that you set a guard over me?

13When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,

my couch will ease my complaint,’

14 Job 9.34 then you scare me with dreams

and terrify me with visions,

15so that I would choose strangling

and death rather than this body.

16 Job 10.1; Eccl 7.15 I loathe my life; I would not live forever.

Let me alone, for my days are a breath.

17 Ps 8.4; 144.3; Heb 2.6 What are humans, that you make so much of them,

that you set your mind on them,

18visit them every morning,

test them every moment?

19Will you not look away from me for a while,

let me alone until I swallow my spittle?

20 v 12 ; Job 16.12; 35.3, 6If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of humanity?

Why have you made me your target?

Why have I become a burden to you?

21 v 8 ; Job 10.14; Ps 104.29Why do you not pardon my transgression

and take away my iniquity?

For now I shall lie in the earth;

you will seek me, but I shall not be.”