New International Version

Job 7:2-12 New International Version (NIV)

2. Like a slave longing for the evening shadows, or a hired laborer waiting to be paid,

3. so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me.

4. When I lie down I think, ‘How long before I get up?’ The night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.

5. My body is clothed with worms and scabs, my skin is broken and festering.

6. “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and they come to an end without hope.

7. Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath; my eyes will never see happiness again.

8. The eye that now sees me will see me no longer; you will look for me, but I will be no more.

9. As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so one who goes down to the grave does not return.

10. He will never come to his house again; his place will know him no more.

11. “Therefore I will not keep silent; I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

12. Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that you put me under guard?