LEB JOB Chapter 7

Job’s Second Speech: A Response to Eliphaz

• And are not his[fn] days like the days of a laborer?
• 2 the shadow, and like a laborer he waits for his wages.
• 3 [fn] months of worthlessness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
• 4 [fn] ‘When shall I rise?’ But[fn] the night is long,
• and I have my fill of tossing until dawn.
• 5 with maggots and clods of dust; my skin hardens, then[fn] it gives way again.
• 6  and they come to an end[fn]
• 7 is a breath; my eye will not return to see good.
• 8 the one seeing me will not see me; your eyes are upon me, but[fn] [fn]
• 9  so he who goes down to Sheol will not come up.
• 10  and his place does not recognize him again.
• 11 [fn] I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in my spirit’s anguish;
• I will complain in my inner self’s[fn] bitterness.
• 12 the sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?
• 13  and my couch[fn] will ease my complaint,’
• 14 [fn] you terrify me with dreams,[fn] and with visions you terrify[fn] me.
• 15 [fn] my inner self[fn] will choose[fn] strangling— death more than my[fn]
• 16 my life; I would not live forever; depart from me, for my days are a breath.
• 17 is a human being that you make him great and that[fn]
• 18 [fn] you visit him [fn] you test him[fn]
• 19 [fn] will you not turn away from me? Or not leave me alone until I swallow[fn] my spit?
• 20 If I have sinned, what have I done to you, watcher of humanity? Why have you made me as a target for yourself,
• so that[fn] I have become a burden to myself?[fn]
• 21  and take away my guilt?
• For now I shall lie in the dust,
• and you will seek me, but[fn] [fn]