Job 7

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Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition	New Jerusalem Bible
¹ "Has not man a hard service upon earth, and are not his days like the days of a hireling?	¹ Is not human life on earth just conscript service? Do we not live a hireling's life?
² Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hireling who looks for his wages,	² Like a slave, sighing for the shade, or a hireling with no thought but for his wages,
³ so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.	³ I have months of futility assigned to me, nights of suffering to be my lot.
⁴ When I lie down I say, 'When shall I arise?' But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn.	⁴ Lying in bed I wonder, 'When wil it be day?' No sooner up than, 'When wil evening come?' And crazythoughts obsess me til twilight fal s.
⁵ My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.	⁵ Vermin and loathsome scabs cover my body; my skin is cracked and oozes pus.
⁶ My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and come to their end without hope.	⁶ Swifter than a weaver's shuttle my days have passed, and vanished, leaving no hope behind.
⁷ "Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.	⁷ Remember that my life is but a breath, and that my eyes will never again see joy.
⁸ The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while thy eyes are upon me, I shall be gone.	⁸ The eye that once saw me wil look on me no more, your eyes wil turn my way, and I shal not be there.
⁹ As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;	⁹ A cloud dissolves and is gone, so no one who goes down to Sheol ever comes up again,
¹⁰ he returns no more to his house, nor does his place know him any more.	¹⁰ ever comes home again, and his house knows that person 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.	¹¹ That is why I cannot keep quiet: in my anguish of spirit I shal speak, in my bitterness of soul I shalcomplain.
¹² Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that thou settest a guard over me?	¹² Am I the Sea, or some sea monster, that you should keep me under guard?
¹³ When I say, 'My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,'	¹³ If I say, 'My bed wil comfort me, my couch wil lighten my complaints,'
¹⁴ then thou dost scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,	¹⁴ you then frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
¹⁵ so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.	¹⁵ so that strangling would seem welcome in comparison, yes, death preferable to what I suffer.
¹⁶ I loathe my life; I would not live for ever. Let me alone, for my days are a breath.	¹⁶ I am wasting away, my life is not unending; leave me then, for my days are but a breath.
¹⁷ What is man, that thou dost make so much of him, and that thou dost set thy mind upon him,	¹⁷ What are human beings that you should take them so seriously, subjecting them to your scrutiny,
¹⁸ dost visit him every morning, and test him every moment?	¹⁸ that morning after morning you should examine them and at every instant test them?
¹⁹ How long wilt thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow my spittle?	¹⁹ Wil you never take your eyes off me long enough for me to swal ow my spittle?
²⁰ If I sin, what do I do to thee, thou watcher of men? Why hast thou made me thy mark? Why have I become a burden to thee?	²⁰ Suppose I have sinned, what have I done to you, you tireless watcher of humanity? Why do youchoose me as your target? Why should I be a burden to you?
²¹ Why dost thou not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; thou wilt seek me, but I shall not be."	²¹ Can you not tolerate my sin, not overlook my fault? For soon I shal be lying in the dust, you wil lookfor me and I shal be no more.

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