Job 7:6-17 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

6. My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope.

7. Remember that my life is but wind, and my eyes shall not return to see good things.

8. Nor shall the sight of man behold me: thy eyes are upon me, and I shall be no more.

9. As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down to hell shall not come up.

10. Nor shall he return my more into his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

11. Wherefore I will not spare my month, I will speak in the affliction of my spirit: I will talk with the bitterness of my soul.

12. Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou hast enclosed me in a prison?

13. If I say: My bed shall comfort me, and I shall be relieved speaking with myself on my couch:

14. Thou wilt frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions.

15. So that my soul rather chooseth hanging, and my bones death.

16. I have done with hope, I shall now live no longer: spare me, for my days are nothing.

17. What is a man that thou shouldst magnify him? or why dost thou set thy heart upon him?

Job 7