{"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/erv/job/7","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T19:47:35.362Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ERV","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":7,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":6,"nextChapter":8,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":21},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? and are not his days like the days of an hireling?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"As a servant that earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling that looketh for his wages:"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise? but the night is long; and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin closeth up and breaketh out afresh."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Oh remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more: thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, so he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Therefore I will not refrain 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, and death rather than these my bones."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"I loathe my life; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him,"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try 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":"If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, so that I am a burden to myself?"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I lie down in the dust; and thou shall seek me diligently, but I shall not be."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 7 (ERV)","markdown":"[Job 7](https://primebible.com/erv/job/7)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ERV. https://primebible.com/erv/job/7 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}