Job 7:11-16

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹¹ That is why I will not restrain my mouth.
I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit.
I will lament in the bitterness of my soul.
¹² Am I the sea or a great creature of the deep
    that you need to put me under guard?
¹³ When I say that my bed will comfort me,
and my couch will help me with my lament,
¹⁴ then you frighten me with dreams
and terrify me with visions,
¹⁵ so I would prefer to be strangled,
and I prefer death more than my current existence.^[a]
16 I reject my life. I do not want to live forever.
Leave me alone, for my days are just a vanishing vapor.