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Job 7 Brenton's English Septuagint

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  • Individual translator
  • OT: Septuagint (Greek)
  • Septuagint Old Testament (no New Testament)
  • Formal (word for word)
  • 1844
  • Public domain

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Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 Is not the life of man upon earth a state of trial? and his existence as that of a hireling by the day?
1 “Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?
2 Or as a servant that fears his master, and one who has grasped a shadow? or as a hireling waiting for his pay?
2 As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,
3 So have I also endured months of vanity, and nights of pain have been appointed me.
3 so I am made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.
4 Whenever 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.
4 When I lie down, I say, ‘When will I arise, and the night be gone?’ I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.
5 And my body is covered with loathsome worms; and I waste away, scraping off clods of dust from my eruption.
5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
6 And my life is lighter than a word, and has perished in vain hope.
6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
7 Remember then that my life is breath, and mine eye shall not yet again see good.
7 Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.
8 The eye of him that sees me shall not see me [again]: thine eyes are upon me, and I am no more.
8 The eye of him who sees me will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.
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:
9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.
10 and he shall surely not return to his own house, neither shall his place know him any more.
10 He will return no more to his house, neither will his place know him any more.
11 Then neither will I refrain my mouth: I will speak being in distress; being in anguish I will disclose the bitterness of my soul.
11 “Therefore I will not keep silent. 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 serpent, that thou hast set a watch over me?
12 Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?
13 I said that my bed should comfort me, and I would privately counsel with myself on my couch.
13 When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint,’
14 Thou scarest me with dreams, and dost terrify me with visions.
14 then you scare me with dreams and terrify me through visions,
15 Thou wilt separate life from my spirit; and yet [keep] my bones from death.
15 so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.
16 For I shall not live for ever, that I should patiently endure: depart from me, for my life [is] vain.
16 I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
17 For what is man, that thou hast magnified him? or that thou givest heed to him?
17 What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,
18 Wilt thou visit him till the morning, and judge him till [the time of] rest?
18 that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?
19 How long dost thou not let me alone, nor let me go, until I shall swallow down my spittle?
19 How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?
20 If 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?
20 If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?
21 Why 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.
21 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”
Cross references (21)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Job 14:5–6; Psalm 39:4; Job 5:7; Job 14:13–14; Leviticus 25:50
  2. 2 Leviticus 19:13; Deuteronomy 24:15; James 5:4; Malachi 3:5; Jeremiah 6:4
  3. 3 Psalm 6:6; Ecclesiastes 1:14; Job 16:7; Job 29:2; Psalm 39:5
  4. 4 Deuteronomy 28:67; Job 7:13–14; Psalm 77:4; Psalm 6:6; Psalm 130:6
  5. 5 Isaiah 14:11; Job 17:14; Job 2:7–8; Isaiah 1:6; Acts 12:23
  6. 6 Job 9:25; Job 17:15; Job 17:11; Isaiah 38:12–13; Isaiah 40:6–7
  7. 7 James 4:14; Psalm 78:39; Jeremiah 15:15; Psalm 89:47; Job 10:21–22
  8. 8 Job 20:9; Psalm 37:36; Job 8:18; Psalm 90:8–9; Job 13:27
  9. 9 Job 10:21; 2 Samuel 14:14; Job 30:15; Job 16:22; Job 14:10–14
  10. 10 Job 8:18; Job 20:9; Psalm 103:16; Job 27:23; Job 27:21
  11. 11 1 Samuel 1:10; Psalm 40:9; Job 10:1; Isaiah 38:15; Job 21:25
  12. 12 Job 7:17; Lamentations 3:7; Ezekiel 32:2–3; Job 38:6–11; Job 41:1–34
  13. 13 Psalm 6:6; Psalm 77:4; Job 7:3–4; Job 9:27–28
  14. 14 Genesis 41:8; Daniel 2:1; Genesis 40:5–7; Judges 7:13–14; Matthew 27:19
  15. 15 Matthew 27:5; 2 Samuel 17:23
  16. 16 1 Kings 19:4; Job 10:1; Job 9:21; Job 14:6; Psalm 62:9
  17. 17 Hebrews 2:6; Psalm 8:4; Psalm 144:3; Job 34:14–15; Job 7:12
  18. 18 1 Peter 1:7; Jeremiah 9:7; Isaiah 38:12–13; Job 14:3; Genesis 22:1
  19. 19 Job 9:18; Psalm 13:1–3; Job 14:6; Psalm 6:3; Psalm 94:3
  20. 20 Lamentations 3:12; Psalm 36:6; Job 3:24; Job 7:11–12; Psalm 21:12
  21. 21 Job 10:14; Daniel 12:2; 1 John 1:9; Lamentations 5:20–22; Isaiah 64:9

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 7:16 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily XXXIII)

    "For I shall not live alway, that I should suffer long." Next, his being conscious to himself of many good works.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)