{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/job/7","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T03:03:57.256Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":7,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":6,"nextChapter":8,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":21},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Hath not man a life of labour upon earth? and are not his days like the days of a hireling?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"As a bondman earnestly desireth the shadow, and a hireling expecteth his wages,"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"If I lie down, I say, When shall I rise up, and the darkness be gone? and I am full of tossings until the dawn."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and suppurates."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Remember thou that my life is wind; mine eye shall no more see good."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"The eye of him that hath seen me shall behold me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"The cloud consumeth and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to Sheol shall not come up."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him again."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Therefore I will not restrain my mouth: I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that thou settest a watch over me?"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions;"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"So that my soul chooseth strangling, death, rather than my bones."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"I loathe it; I shall not live always: let me alone, for my days are a breath."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"What is man, that thou makest much of him? and that thou settest thy heart upon him?"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And that thou visitest him every morning, triest him every moment?"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"How long wilt thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Have I sinned, what do I unto thee, thou Observer of men? Why hast thou set me as an object of assault for thee, so that I am become a burden to myself?"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"And why dost not thou forgive my transgression and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I lie down in the dust, and thou shalt seek me early, and I shall not be."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 7 (DBT)","markdown":"[Job 7](https://primebible.com/dbt/job/7)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/job/7 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}