Gottes Neue Bibel

The Book of Job

Literal Standard Version 2020

- Kapitel 7 -

Job: My suffering is without consolation

1
Is there not warfare to man on earth? And his days as the days of a hired worker?
2
As a servant desires the shadow, || And as a hired worker expects his wage,
3
So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, || And they numbered nights of misery to me.
4
If I lay down, then I have said, When do I rise, || And evening has been measured? And I have been full of tossings until dawn.
5
My flesh has been clothed [with] worms, || And a clod of dust, || My skin has been shriveled and is loathsome,
6
My days swifter than a loom, || And they are consumed without hope.
7
Remember that my life [is] a breath, || My eye does not turn back to see good.
8
The eye of my beholder does not behold me. Your eyes [are] on meand I am not.
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 mouthI 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 awayI 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 meand I am not!”