“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Job 14:5-6Psa 39:4Job 5:7Job 14:13-14Lev 25:50Deu 15:18Ecc 8:8Isa 40:2
Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?
As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, Lev 19:13Deu 24:15Jas 5:4Mal 3:5Jer 6:4Psa 119:131Psa 143:6
as a hireling who looks for his wages,
so I am made to possess months of misery, Psa 6:6Ecc 1:14Job 16:7Job 29:2Psa 39:5
wearisome nights are appointed to me.
When I lie down, I say, Deu 28:67Job 7:13-14Psa 77:4Job 30:17Psa 130:6Psa 6:6Job 17:12Isa 54:11
‘When will I arise, and the night be gone?’
I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. Isa 14:11Job 17:14Job 2:7-8Act 12:23Ezk 20:43Isa 1:6Isa 66:24Job 19:26
My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, Job 9:25Job 17:15Job 17:111Pe 1:24Isa 38:12-13Isa 40:6-7Job 16:22Pro 14:32
and are spent without hope.
Oh remember that my life is a breath. Jas 4:14Psa 78:39Jer 15:15Psa 89:47Job 10:21-22Psa 74:18Psa 89:50Gen 42:36
My eye will no more see good.
The eye of him who sees me will see me no more. Job 20:9Psa 37:36Job 8:18Job 13:27Job 14:3Psa 39:11Psa 90:8-9
Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.
As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, 2Sa 14:14Job 10:21Job 30:152Sa 12:23Job 14:10-14Job 16:22Psa 39:13Isa 38:11
so he who goes down to Sheol 1 will come up no more.
He will return no more to his house, Job 8:18Job 20:9Psa 103:16Job 27:21Job 27:23
neither will his place know him any more.
“Therefore I will not keep silent. 1Sa 1:10Psa 40:9Job 10:1Isa 38:15Isa 38:17Job 21:25Job 6:262Co 2:4
I will speak in the anguish of my spirit.
I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Am I a sea, or a sea monster, Ezk 32:2-3Job 38:6-11Job 7:17Lam 3:7Job 41:1-34
that you put a guard over me?
When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me. Psa 6:6Psa 77:4Job 7:3-4Job 9:27-28
My couch will ease my complaint,’
then you scare me with dreams Dan 2:1Gen 40:5-7Gen 41:8Jdg 7:13-14Mat 27:19
and terrify me through visions,
so that my soul chooses strangling, 2Sa 17:23Mat 27:5
death rather than my bones.
I loathe my life. 1Ki 19:4Job 10:1Job 14:6Job 9:21Job 10:20Job 6:9Jon 4:8Psa 39:13
I don’t want to live forever.
Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
What is man, that you should magnify him, Heb 2:6Psa 8:4Psa 144:3Job 34:14-15Job 7:121Sa 24:14
that you should set your mind on him,
that you should visit him every morning, 1Pe 1:7Isa 38:12-13Jer 9:7Dan 12:10Deu 8:16Exo 20:5Gen 22:1Isa 26:14
and test him every moment?
How long will you not look away from me, Job 9:18Job 14:6Psa 13:1-3Psa 6:3Psa 94:3Rev 6:10
nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?
If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Lam 3:12Job 3:24Job 7:11-12Psa 36:6Job 13:26Job 14:16Job 16:12-14Job 22:5
Why have you set me as a mark for you,
so that I am a burden to myself?
Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? Dan 12:2Job 10:141Jn 1:9Ecc 12:7Isa 64:9Lam 5:20-221Jn 3:52Sa 24:10
For now will I lie down in the dust.
You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”