Job 7:11-16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹¹ “Therefore I will not restrain my mouth;
    I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;
    I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.^(A)
12 Am I the Sea or the Dragon
    that you set a guard over me?^(B)
13 When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,
    my couch will ease my complaint,’
¹⁴ then you scare me with dreams
    and terrify me with visions,^(C)
15 so that I would choose strangling
    and death rather than this body.
¹⁶ I loathe my life; I would not live forever.
    Let me alone, for my days are a breath.^(D)