| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Berean Study Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand? |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Therefore 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that You must keep me under guard? |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him, |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18that You attend to him every morning, and test him every moment? |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle? |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You? |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.” |
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