Scriptures

New Living Translation (NLT)

Job 6
²⁸ Look at me! Would I lie to your face?
²⁹ Stop assuming my guilt, for I have done no wrong.
³⁰ Do you think I am lying? Don’t I know the difference between right and wrong?
Job 7
¹ “Is not all human life a struggle? Our lives are like that of a hired hand,
² like a worker who longs for the shade, like a servant waiting to be paid.
³ I, too, have been assigned months of futility, long and weary nights of misery.
⁴ Lying in bed, I think, ‘When will it be morning?’ But the night drags on, and I toss till dawn.
⁵ My body is covered with maggots and scabs. My skin breaks open, oozing with pus.
⁶ “My days fly faster than a weaver’s shuttle. They end without hope.
⁷ O God, remember that my life is but a breath, and I will never again feel happiness.
⁸ You see me now, but not for long. You will look for me, but I will be gone.