Job 7:9-21 ▼

9 A cloud has been consumed, and it goes, || So he who is going down to Sheol does not come up.

10 He does not turn to his house again, || Nor does his place discern him again.

11 Also I do not withhold my mouth—I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul.

12 Am I a sea [monster], or a dragon, || That You set a watch over me?

13 When I said, My bed comforts me, || In my talking He takes away my couch.

14 And You have frightened me with dreams, || And You terrify me from visions,

15 And my soul chooses strangling, || Death rather than my bones.

16 I have wasted away—I do not live for all time. Cease from me, for my days [are] vanity.

17 What [is] man that You magnify him? And that You set Your heart to him?

18 And inspect him in the mornings, || [And] in the evenings try him?

19 How long do You not look from me? You do not desist until I swallow my spittle.

20 I have sinned, what do I do to You, || O watcher of man? Why have You set me for a mark to You, || And I am for a burden to myself—and what?

21 You do not take away my transgression, || And [do not] cause my iniquity to pass away, || Because now, I lie down in dust, || And You have sought me—and I am not!”