| English Standard Version | Berean Study Bible |
| 1“Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand? | 1“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand? |
| 2Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hired hand who looks for his wages, | 2Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages. |
| 3so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me. | 3So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me. |
| 4When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?’ But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn. | 4When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn. |
| 5My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh. | 5My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering. |
| 6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and come to their end without hope. | 6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope. |
| 7“Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good. | 7Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness. |
| 8The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while your eyes are on me, I shall be gone. | 8The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more. |
| 9As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up; | 9As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up. |
| 10he returns no more to his house, nor does his place know him anymore. | 10He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more. |
| 11“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. | 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. |
| 12Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me? | 12Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that You must keep me under guard? |
| 13When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,’ | 13When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint, |
| 14then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions, | 14then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions, |
| 15so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones. | 15so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body. |
| 16I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath. | 16I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath. |
| 17What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him, | 17What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him, |
| 18visit him every morning and test him every moment? | 18that You attend to him every morning, and test him every moment? |
| 19How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone till I swallow my spit? | 19Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle? |
| 20If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind? Why have you made me your mark? Why have I become a burden to you? | 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? |
| 21Why 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.” | 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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