Job 7:1-5

New International Reader's Version

“Don’t all human beings have to work hard on this earth?
    Aren’t their days like the days of hired workers?
² I’ve been like a slave
    who longs for the evening shadows to come.
I’ve been like a hired worker
    who is waiting to be paid.
³ I’ve been given several months that were useless to me.
    My nights have been filled with suffering.
⁴ When I lie down I think,
    ‘How long will it be before I can get up?’
The night drags on.
    I toss and turn until sunrise.
⁵ My body is covered with worms and sores.
    My skin is broken. It has boils all over it.