# Job 7

- Translation: Berean Standard Bible
- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/7
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).

## Text

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

## Each verse

- Job 7:1 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/7/1
- Job 7:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/7/2
- Job 7:3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/7/3
- Job 7:4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/7/4
- Job 7:5 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/7/5
- Job 7:6 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/7/6
- Job 7:7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/7/7
- Job 7:8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/7/8
- Job 7:9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/7/9
- Job 7:10 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/7/10
- Job 7:11 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/7/11
- Job 7:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/7/12
- Job 7:13 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/7/13
- Job 7:14 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/7/14
- Job 7:15 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/7/15
- Job 7:16 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/7/16
- Job 7:17 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/7/17
- Job 7:18 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/7/18
- Job 7:19 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/7/19
- Job 7:20 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/7/20
- Job 7:21 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/7/21