Job 7 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Job's Life Seems Futile

Job 7:1Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And as the days of an hireling his days?

Job 7:2As a servant desireth the shadow, And as a hireling expecteth his wage,

Job 7:3So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me.

Job 7:4If I lay down then I said, 'When do I rise!' And evening hath been measured, And I have been full of tossings till dawn.

Job 7:5

Job 7:5Clothed hath been my flesh with worms, And a clod of dust, My skin hath been shrivelled and is loathsome,

Job 7:6

Job 7:6My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.

Job 7:7

Job 7:7Remember Thou that my life is a breath, Mine eye turneth not back to see good.

Job 7:8

Job 7:8The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes are upon me -- and I am not.

Job 7:9

Job 7:9Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up.

Job 7:10

Job 7:10He turneth not again to his house, Nor doth his place discern him again.

Job 7:11

Job 7:11Also I -- I withhold not my mouth -- I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 7:12

Job 7:12A sea-monster am I, or a dragon, That thou settest over me a guard?

Job 7:13

Job 7:13When I said, 'My bed doth comfort me,' He taketh away in my talking my couch.

Job 7:14

Job 7:14And thou hast affrighted me with dreams, And from visions thou terrifiest me,

Job 7:15

Job 7:15And my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than my bones.

Job 7:16

Job 7:16I have wasted away -- not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days are vanity.

Job 7:17

Job 7:17What is man that Thou dost magnify him? And that Thou settest unto him Thy heart?

Job 7:18

Job 7:18And inspectest him in the mornings, In the evenings dost try him?

Job 7:19

Job 7:19How long dost Thou not look from me? Thou dost not desist till I swallow my spittle.

Job 7:20

Job 7:20I have sinned, what do I to Thee, O watcher of man? Why hast Thou set me for a mark to Thee, And I am for a burden to myself -- and what?

Job 7:21

Job 7:21Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me -- and I am not!

The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Job 7 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Job's Life Seems Futile

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Job Chapter 7 — Additional Translations:

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