English Standard Version

Job 7:1-8 English Standard Version (ESV)

1. “Has not man a hard service on earth,and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?

2. Like a slave who longs for the shadow,and like a hired hand who looks for his wages,

3. so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.

4. When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?’But the night is long,and I am full of tossing till the dawn.

5. My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt;my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.

6. My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttleand come to their end without hope.

7. “Remember that my life is a breath;my eye will never again see good.

8. The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more;while your eyes are on me, I shall be gone.