{"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/web/job/7","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T23:19:58.277Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":7,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":6,"nextChapter":8,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":21},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"|Isn't a man forced to labor on earth? Aren't his days like the days of a hired hand?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' I toss and turn until the dawning of the day."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks 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 a breath. My eye shall no more see good."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes 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 keep silent. 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 you put a guard over me?"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint;'"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"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?"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.|"}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 7 (WEB)","markdown":"[Job 7](https://primebible.com/web/job/7)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/job/7 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}