New International Reader's Version

Job 7:6-19 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

6. "My days pass by faster than a weaver can work. They come to an end. I don't have any hope.

7. God, remember that my life is only a breath. I'll never be happy again.

8. The eyes that see me now won't see me anymore. You will look for me. But I'll be gone.

9. When a cloud disappears, it's gone forever. And anyone who goes down to the grave never returns.

10. He never comes home again. Even his own family doesn't remember him.

11. "So I won't keep quiet. When I'm suffering greatly, I'll speak out. When my spirit is bitter, I'll tell you how unhappy I am.

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?