New International Reader's Version

Job 7:12-19 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

12. Am I the ocean? Am I the sea monster? If I'm not, why do you guard me so closely?

13. Sometimes I think my bed will comfort me. I think my couch will keep me from being unhappy.

14. But even then you send me dreams that frighten me. You send me visions that terrify me.

15. So I would rather choke to death. That would be better than living in this body of mine.

16. I hate my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone. My days don't mean anything to me.

17. "What are human beings that you think so much of them? What are they that you pay so much attention to them?

18. You check up on them every morning. You put them to the test every moment.

19. Won't you ever look away from me? Won't you leave me alone even for one second?