Job 7 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

Job 7:1Is not the life of man upon earth a state of trial? and his existence as that of a hireling by the day?

Job 7:2Or as a servant that fears his master, and one who has grasped a shadow? or as a hireling waiting for his pay?

Job 7:3So have I also endured months of vanity, and nights of pain have been appointed me.

Job 7:4Whenever I lie down, I say, When will it be day? and whenever I rise up, again I say when will it be evening? and I am full of pains from evening to morning.

Job 7:5

Job 7:5And my body is covered with loathsome worms; and I waste away, scraping off clods of dust from my eruption.

Job 7:6

Job 7:6And my life is lighter than a word, and has perished in vain hope.

Job 7:7

Job 7:7Remember then that my life is breath, and mine eye shall not yet again see good.

Job 7:8

Job 7:8The eye of him that sees me shall not see me again: thine eyes are upon me, and I am no more.

Job 7:9

Job 7:9 I am as a cloud that is cleared away from the sky: for if a man go down to the grave, he shall not come up again:

Job 7:10

Job 7:10and he shall surely not return to his own house, neither shall his place know him any more.

Job 7:11

Job 7:11Then neither will I refrain my mouth: I will speak being in distress; being in anguish I will disclose the bitterness of my soul.

Job 7:12

Job 7:12Am I a sea, or a serpent, that thou hast set a watch over me?

Job 7:13

Job 7:13I said that my bed should comfort me, and I would privately counsel with myself on my couch.

Job 7:14

Job 7:14Thou scarest me with dreams, and dost terrify me with visions.

Job 7:15

Job 7:15Thou wilt separate life from my spirit; and yet keep my bones from death.

Job 7:16

Job 7:16For I shall not live for ever, that I should patiently endure: depart from me, for my life is vain.

Job 7:17

Job 7:17For what is man, that thou hast magnified him? or that thou givest heed to him?

Job 7:18

Job 7:18Wilt thou visit him till the morning, and judge him till the time of rest?

Job 7:19

Job 7:19How long dost thou not let me alone, nor let me go, until I shall swallow down my spittle?

Job 7:20

Job 7:20If I have sinned, what shall I be able to do, O thou that understandest the mind of men? why hast thou made me as thine accuser, and why am I a burden to thee?

Job 7:21

Job 7:21Why hast thou not forgotten my iniquity, and purged my sin? but now I shall depart to the earth; and in the morning, I am no more.

Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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