Job 7:13-21 ▼

13 When I say, My bed will comfort me, my couch will lift my complaint,

14 then You shatter me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

15 so that my soul would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.

16 I loathe—I would not live forever! Cease from me, for my days are vapor.

17 What is man that You should magnify him, and that You would set Your heart toward him,

18 that You attend to him in the mornings; in the moments You will test him?

19 How long will You not look away from me? Will You not leave me alone until I swallow my spittle?

20 If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You set me to be a target for You and why should I be a burden to You?

21 And why do You not lift my transgression and make my iniquity pass away? For now in the dust I shall lie down, and You will seek me, and I will not be there.”