American Standard Version

Job 7:11-17 American Standard Version (ASV)

11. 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.

12. Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That thou settest a watch over me?

13. When I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint;

14. Then thou scarest me with dreams, And terrifiest me through visions:

15. So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than these my bones.

16. I loathe my life; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.

17. What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, And that thou shouldest set thy mind upon him,