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King James Bible |
Youngs Literal Translation |
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| 7:1 | Is there not |
Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And as the days of an hireling his days? |
| 7:2 | As a servant |
As a servant desireth the shadow, And as a hireling expecteth his wage, |
| 7:3 | So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. | So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me. |
| 7:4 | When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and |
If I lay down then I said, `When do I rise!' And evening hath been measured, And I have been full of tossings till dawn. |
| 7:5 | My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. | Clothed hath been my flesh `with' worms, And a clod of dust, My skin hath been shrivelled and is loathsome, |
| 7:6 | My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. | My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope. |
| 7:7 | O remember that my life is wind: mine eye |
Remember Thou that my life `is' a breath, Mine eye turneth not back to see good. |
| 7:8 | The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. | The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes `are' upon me -- and I am not. |
| 7:9 | As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. | Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up. |
| 7:10 | He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more. | He turneth not again to his house, Nor doth his place discern him again. |
| 7:11 | Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. | Also I -- I withhold not my mouth -- I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul. |
| 7:12 | Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? | A sea-`monster' am I, or a dragon, That thou settest over me a guard? |
| 7:13 | When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; | When I said, `My bed doth comfort me,' He taketh away in my talking my couch. |
| 7:14 | Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: | And thou hast affrighted me with dreams, And from visions thou terrifiest me, |
| 7:15 | So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. | And my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than my bones. |
| 7:16 | I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity. | I have wasted away -- not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days `are' vanity. |
| 7:17 | What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? | What `is' man that Thou dost magnify him? And that Thou settest unto him Thy heart? |
| 7:18 | And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment? | And inspectest him in the mornings, In the evenings dost try him? |
| 7:19 | How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? | How long dost Thou not look from me? Thou dost not desist till I swallow my spittle. |
| 7:20 | I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself? | I have sinned, what do I to Thee, O watcher of man? Why hast Thou set me for a mark to Thee, And I am for a burden to myself -- and what? |
| 7:21 | And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be. | Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me -- and I am not! |