11 “Therefore I will (A)not restrain my mouth;
I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;
I will (B)complain in the bitterness of my soul.
12 Am I a sea, or a sea serpent,
That You set a guard over me?
13 (C)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,
15 So that my soul chooses strangling
And death rather than [a]my body.
16 (D)I loathe my life;
I would not live forever.
(E)Let me alone,
For (F)my days are but [b]a breath.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 7:15 Lit. my bones
  2. Job 7:16 Without substance, futile

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