# Job 7 (New King James Version)
Job: My Suffering Is Comfortless

##### Chapter 7
###### 1 "_Is there_ not a time of hard service for man on earth?  
_Are not_ his days also like the days of a hired man?  

###### 2 Like a servant who earnestly desires the shade,  
And like a hired man who eagerly looks for his wages,  

###### 3 So I have been allotted months of futility,  
And wearisome nights have been appointed to me.  

###### 4 When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise,  
And the night be ended?'  
For I have had my fill of tossing till dawn.  

###### 5 My flesh is caked with worms and dust,  
My skin is cracked and breaks out afresh.

###### 6 "My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle,  
And are spent without hope.  

###### 7 Oh, remember that my life _is_ a breath!  
My eye will never again see good.  

###### 8 The eye of him who sees me will see me no _more;_  
_While_ your eyes _are_ upon me, I shall no longer _be._  

###### 9 _As_ the cloud disappears and vanishes away,  
So he who goes down to the grave does not come up.  

###### 10 He shall never return to his house,  
Nor shall his place know him anymore.

###### 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 a sea, or a sea serpent,  
That You set a guard over me?  

###### 13 When I say, 'My bed will comfort me,  
My couch will ease my complaint,'  

###### 14 Then You scare me with dreams  
And terrify me with visions,  

###### 15 So that my soul chooses strangling  
_And_ death rather than my body.  

###### 16 I loathe _my life;_  
I would not live forever.  
Let me alone,  
For my days _are but_ a breath.

###### 17 "What _is_ man, that You should exalt him,  
_That_ You should set Your heart on him,  

###### 18 That You should visit him every morning,  
_And_ test him every moment?  

###### 19 How long?  
Will You not look away from me,  
And let me alone till I swallow my saliva?  

###### 20 Have I sinned?  
What have I done to You, O watcher of men?  
Why have You set me as Your target,  
So that I am a burden to myself?  

###### 21 Why then do You not pardon my transgression,  
And take away my iniquity?  
For now I will lie down in the dust,  
And You will seek me diligently,  
But I _will_ no longer _be._"