Job · Young's Literal Translation
Job 7 Young's Literal Translation
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1 Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And as the days of an hireling his days?
1 “Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?
2 As a servant desireth the shadow, And as a hireling expecteth his wage,
2 As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,
3 So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me.
3 so I am made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.
4 If I lay down then I said, 'When do I rise!' And evening hath been measured, And I have been full of tossings till dawn.
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 Clothed hath been my flesh [with] worms, And a clod of dust, My skin hath been shrivelled and is loathsome,
5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
6 My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.
6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
7 Remember Thou that my life [is] a breath, Mine eye turneth not back to see good.
7 Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.
8 The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes [are] upon me — and I am not.
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 Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up.
9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.
10 He turneth not again to his house, Nor doth his place discern him again.
10 He will return no more to his house, neither will his place know him any more.
11 Also I — I withhold not my mouth — I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in 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 A sea -[monster] am I, or a dragon, That thou settest over me a guard?
12 Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?
13 When I said, 'My bed doth comfort me,' He taketh away in my talking my couch.
13 When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint,’
14 And thou hast affrighted me with dreams, And from visions thou terrifiest me,
14 then you scare me with dreams and terrify me through visions,
15 And my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than my bones.
15 so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.
16 I have wasted away — not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days [are] vanity.
16 I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
17 What [is] man that Thou dost magnify him? And that Thou settest unto him Thy heart?
17 What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,
18 And inspectest him in the mornings, In the evenings dost try him?
18 that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?
19 How long dost Thou not look from me? Thou dost not desist till I swallow my spittle.
19 How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?
20 I 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?
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 Thou 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!
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 Job 14:5–6; Psalm 39:4; Job 5:7; Job 14:13–14; Leviticus 25:50
- 2 Leviticus 19:13; Deuteronomy 24:15; James 5:4; Malachi 3:5; Jeremiah 6:4
- 3 Psalm 6:6; Ecclesiastes 1:14; Job 16:7; Job 29:2; Psalm 39:5
- 4 Deuteronomy 28:67; Job 7:13–14; Psalm 77:4; Psalm 6:6; Psalm 130:6
- 5 Isaiah 14:11; Job 17:14; Job 2:7–8; Isaiah 1:6; Acts 12:23
- 6 Job 9:25; Job 17:15; Job 17:11; Isaiah 38:12–13; Isaiah 40:6–7
- 7 James 4:14; Psalm 78:39; Jeremiah 15:15; Psalm 89:47; Job 10:21–22
- 8 Job 20:9; Psalm 37:36; Job 8:18; Psalm 90:8–9; Job 13:27
- 9 Job 10:21; 2 Samuel 14:14; Job 30:15; Job 16:22; Job 14:10–14
- 10 Job 8:18; Job 20:9; Psalm 103:16; Job 27:23; Job 27:21
- 11 1 Samuel 1:10; Psalm 40:9; Job 10:1; Isaiah 38:15; Job 21:25
- 12 Job 7:17; Lamentations 3:7; Ezekiel 32:2–3; Job 38:6–11; Job 41:1–34
- 13 Psalm 6:6; Psalm 77:4; Job 7:3–4; Job 9:27–28
- 14 Genesis 41:8; Daniel 2:1; Genesis 40:5–7; Judges 7:13–14; Matthew 27:19
- 15 Matthew 27:5; 2 Samuel 17:23
- 16 1 Kings 19:4; Job 10:1; Job 9:21; Job 14:6; Psalm 62:9
- 17 Hebrews 2:6; Psalm 8:4; Psalm 144:3; Job 34:14–15; Job 7:12
- 18 1 Peter 1:7; Jeremiah 9:7; Isaiah 38:12–13; Job 14:3; Genesis 22:1
- 19 Job 9:18; Psalm 13:1–3; Job 14:6; Psalm 6:3; Psalm 94:3
- 20 Lamentations 3:12; Psalm 36:6; Job 3:24; Job 7:11–12; Psalm 21:12
- 21 Job 10:14; Daniel 12:2; 1 John 1:9; Lamentations 5:20–22; Isaiah 64:9
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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).
"For I shall not live alway, that I should suffer long." Next, his being conscious to himself of many good works.
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