Job 7 (TFTU)

1 “People need to work hard on this earth, like soldiers do;all during the time that we are alive, we work hard [RHQ], like laborers/servants do. 2 We are like [SIM] slaves who keep wanting to be in the cool shade,and we are like [SIM] workers who are waiting to be paid. 3 God has given me many months in which I think that it is useless to remain alive;he has allotted/given to me many nights during which I feel miserable. 4 When I lie down at night I say, ‘How long will it be until morning?’But nights are long, and I ◄toss/turn over and over► on my bed until dawn. 5 My body is covered with maggots and scabs;pus oozes out of my open sores. 6 My days pass as quickly as a weaver’s ◄shuttle/stick that takes the thread back and forth►,and they end without my confidently expecting that things will be better the next day. 7 God, do not forget that my life is as short as a breath [MET];I think that I [SYN] will never again be happy. 8 God, you [SYN] see me now,but some day you will not see me anymore.You will search for me, but I will be gone because I will be dead. 9 Like [SIM] clouds ◄disperse/break up► and then disappear,people die and descend to the place where dead people are, and they do not return; 10 they never return to their houses,and people among whom they lived do not remember them anymore. 11 So, I will not be silent;while I am suffering I will speak;I will complain to God about what has happened to mebecause I [SYN] am very angry. 12 God, why do you watch closely what I am doing? Do you think that I am a dangerous sea monster? 13 When I lie down at night, I think, ‘I will be comforted here on my bed;my pain will be less while I am sleeping.’ 14 But then you give me dreams that cause me to be afraid;you give me visions that terrify me, 15 with the result that I would prefer to be strangled to deaththan to continue to be alive being only a bunch of bones. 16 I detest continuing to be alive; I do not want to live for many years [HYP].Allow me to be alone, because I will be alive for only a very short remaining time [HYP]. 17 “We human beings are not very important;so, why do you pay a lot of attention to us [DOU]? 18 You look at us every morning to see what we are doing,and examine us every moment to see if we are doing what is right. 19 ◄When will you stop looking at me and leave me alone for a little time, long enough to swallow my spit?/Please stop looking at me and leave me alone for a little time, long enough to swallow my spit.► [RHQ] 20 Why do you watch me constantly?If I sin, that certainly does not harm you!Why have you set me up like a target to shoot at?Do you consider me to be a heavy load that you are forced to carry? 21 If I have sinned, are you not able to forgive me for my sins—the things that I have done that are wrong?Soon I will lie in my grave;you will search for me, but you will not find me because I will be dead and gone.”

Job 7 (TFTU)

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