7
Job: My Suffering Is Comfortless
1“Is there not ⚓a time of hard service for man on earth?
Are not his days also like the days of a hired man?
2Like a servant who earnestly desires the shade,
And like a hired man who eagerly looks for his wages,
3So I have been allotted ⚓months of futility,
And wearisome nights have been appointed to me.
4⚓When I lie down, I say, ‘When shall I arise,
And the night be ended?’
For I have had my fill of tossing till dawn.
5My flesh is ⚓caked with worms and dust,
My skin is cracked and breaks out afresh.
6“My⚓ days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
And are spent without hope.
7Oh, remember that ⚓my life is a breath!
My eye will never again see good.
8⚓The eye of him who sees me will see me no more;
While your eyes are upon me, I shall no longer be.
9As the cloud disappears and vanishes away,
So ⚓he who goes down to the grave does not come up.
10He shall never return to his house,
⚓Nor shall his place know him anymore.
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.
12Am I a sea, or a sea serpent,
That You set a guard over me?
13⚓When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,
My couch will ease my complaint,’
14Then You scare me with dreams
And terrify me with visions,
15So that my soul chooses strangling
And death rather than my body.
16⚓I loathe my life;
I would not live forever.
⚓Let me alone,
For ⚓my days are but a breath.
17“What⚓is man, that You should exalt him,
That You should set Your heart on him,
18That You should visit him every morning,
And test him every moment?
19How long?
Will You not look away from me,
And let me alone till I swallow my saliva?
20Have I sinned?
What have I done to You, ⚓O watcher of men?
Why ⚓have You set me as Your target,
So that I am a burden to myself?
21Why then do You not pardon my transgression,
And take away my iniquity?
For now I will lie down in the dust,
And You will seek me diligently,
But I will no longer be.”
7
1Tuabneeg tsw ua num khwv khwv
huv nplajteb nuav lov?
Hab puab lub neej zoo tsw thooj le
cov kws ua zug lov?
2Ib yaam le tug qhev tog nrhw duab tsaus ntuj,
hab yaam le tug tub zug kws tog rawv cov nqe zug,
3ib yaam le hov kuv le feem
yog nyob ntau lub hli qhuav qhawv,
hab tej kws faib rua kuv
yog mo ntuj raug kev txhawj xeeb ntxhuv sab.
4Thaus kuv pw kuv has tas,
‘Thaus twg kuv le sawv?’
Tassws mo ntuj kuj ntev,
kuv ntxeev moog ntxeev lug txug kaaj ntug.
5Kuv tej nqaj muaj kaas lij hab lu moov aav,
kuv daim tawv tu pleb pluav hab rov ua kua paug.
6Kuv lub noob nyoog sai dhau tug nqog
kws saamswm ntus ntaub,
mas thaus kawg kuj tsw muaj chaw vaam.
7“Vaajtswv, thov ncu tas kuv txujsa tsuas
ntev le ua ib paas cua xwb,
kuv lub qhov muag yuav tsw pum
qhov zoo dua le lawm.
8Tug kws lub qhov muag pum kuv
yuav tsw pum kuv dua le lawm,
thaus koj lub qhov muag saib ntsoov kuv
los tub dua kuv lawm.
9Tej fuab yaaj xaam taag le caag,
tug kws moog rua huv tub tuag teb
yeej tsw rov lug ib yaam le ntawd.
10Nwg tsw rov moog rua huv
nwg lub tsev dua le lawm,
hab nwg lub chaw nyob
los tsw paub nwg le lawm.
11“Vem le nuav kuv txhad tsw tswj
kuv lub qhov ncauj,
kuv tug ntsuj plig txom nyem lwj sab kuv txhad has,
ab kuv lub sab kawg kuv txhad ywg.
12Kuv yog havtxwv lossws yog ib tug zaaj
koj txhad zuv kuv lov?
13Thaus kuv has tas,
‘Kuv lub txaaj yuav nplig kuv lub sab,
kuv lub chaw pw yuav paab kuv txujkev txom nyem
kuas yau quas zug,’
14los koj ua rua kuv ua npau suav ntshai heev,
hab ua rua kuv ua yug quas toog
ua rua kuv ntshai,
15kuv txhad xaiv qhov kws
raug zawm cej daab tuag,
zoo dua le tshuav tej pob txhaa nuav.
16Kuv ntxub kuv txujsa lawm,
kuv tsw xaav nyob moog ib txhws.
Thov tso ca kuv nyob kuv ib leeg
vem kuv lub noob nyoog
ntev le ua ib paas cua xwb.
17Tuabneeg yog daabtsw
es koj yuav suav tas tseem ceeb heev,
hab koj yuav mob sab puab,
18hab naj taagkig tuaj saib puab,
hab swm puab txhua lub swjhawm?
19Koj yuav tsw fee plhu ntawm kuv ib nyuas plag
hab tsw tso kuv nyob kuv ib leeg
ntev le kws kuv nqog ib paa qub ncaug lov?
20Au koj kws yog tug kws zuv tuabneeg,
yog kuv ua txhum kuv tau ua le caag rua koj lawm?
Ua caag koj muab kuv ua daim phaj rua koj?
Ua caag kuv ua lub nraa nyaav rua koj lawm?
21Ua caag koj tsw zaam kuv tej kev faav xeeb
hab tsw daws kuv lub txem moog pov tseg?
Tsua qhov nwgnuav kuv yuav pw rua huv aav,
koj yuav nrhav kuv kuas tsw muaj kuv lawm.”