Job 7)
1 Is there not a warfare to mortal man upon earth? (cp. 14:14) are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
2 As a servant earnestly desires the shade (i.e. daytime), and as an hireling looks for the reward of his work: (put for wages or reward gained by work: i.e. evening.)
3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
4 When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
7 O remember that my life is wind (Heb. ruach): my eye shall no more see good.
8 The eye of him that has seen me shall see me no more: your eyes are upon me, and I am not.
9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away: so he that goes down to the grave shall come up no more.
10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place recognize him any more.
11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit (ruach); I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
12 Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that you set a bound about me? (Cp. Jer. 5:22)
13 When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complainings;'
14 Then You scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:
15 So that my soul chooses strangling, and death by my [own] hands.
16 (I loathe [life]; I would not live always: let me alone; for my days are vanity.) (This verse is parenthetical, being the thoughts of suicide, which intrudes itself upon him.)
17 What is man, that You should magnify him? and that You should set Your heart upon him?
18 And that You should visit him every morning (put for all time : i.e. continually.), and try him every moment?
19 How long will You not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
20 I have sinned; what shall I do to , O You Preserver of men? why have You set me as a mark against You, so that I am a burden to You?
21 And why do You not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and You shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be."