{"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/drb/job/7","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T17:25:08.619Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":7,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":6,"nextChapter":8,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":21},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"The life of man upon earth is a warfare, and his days are like the days of a hireling. "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"As a servant longeth for the shade, as the hireling looketh for the end of his work; "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"So I also have had empty months, and have numbered to myself wearisome nights. "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"If I lie down to sleep, I shall say: When shall arise? and again I shall look for the evening, and shall be filled with sorrows even till darkness. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"My flesh is clothed with rottenness and the filth of dust, my skin is withered and drawn together. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Remember that my life is but wind, and my eyes shall not return to see good things. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Nor shall the sight of man behold me: thy eyes are upon me, and I shall be no more. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down to hell shall not come up. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Nor shall he return my more into his house, neither shall his place know him any more. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Wherefore I will not spare my month, I will speak in the affliction of my spirit: I will talk with the bitterness of my soul. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou hast enclosed me in a prison? "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"If I say: My bed shall comfort me, and I shall be relieved speaking with myself on my couch: "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Thou wilt frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"So that my soul rather chooseth hanging, and my bones death. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"I have done with hope, I shall now live no longer: spare me, for my days are nothing. "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"What is a man that thou shouldst magnify him? or why dost thou set thy heart upon him? "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Thou visitest him early in the morning, and thou provest him suddenly. "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"How long wilt thou not spare me, nor suffer me to swallow down my spittle? "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"I have sinned: what shall I do to thee, O keeper of men? why hast thou set me opposite to thee, and I am become burdensome to myself? "},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Why dost thou not remove my sin, and why dost thou not take away my iniquity? Behold now I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me in the morning, I shall not be. "}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 7 (DRB)","markdown":"[Job 7](https://primebible.com/drb/job/7)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/job/7 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}