New Living Translation (NLT)
Job 7
9 Just as a cloud dissipates and vanishes, those who die will not come back.
10 They are gone forever from their home— never to be seen again.
11 “I cannot keep from speaking. I must express my anguish. My bitter soul must complain.
12 Am I a sea monster or a dragon that you must place me under guard?
13 I think, ‘My bed will comfort me, and sleep will ease my misery,’
14 but then you shatter me with dreams and terrify me with visions.
15 I would rather be strangled— rather die than suffer like this.
16 I hate my life and don’t want to go on living. Oh, leave me alone for my few remaining days.
17 “What are people, that you should make so much of us, that you should think of us so often?
18 For you examine us every morning and test us every moment.
19 Why won’t you leave me alone, at least long enough for me to swallow!
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