Job 7:12-21 - Job Says To God: Leave Me Alone

¹² Am I the sea, or a dragon, that thou wilt set a watch over me? ¹³ For I said, My bed shall comfort me; my couch shall lift up in my complaint; ¹⁴ And thou didst terrify me with dreams, and thou wilt make me afraid with visions: ¹⁵ And my soul will choose strangling; death rather than my bones. ¹⁶ I melted away; I shall not live forever: desist from me, for my days are vanity.

¹⁷ What is man that thou wilt magnify him? and that thou wilt set thy heart to him? ¹⁸ And thou wilt review him for the mornings, and thou wilt try him for the moments. ¹⁹ How long wilt thou not look away from me? wilt thou not desist from me even to my swallowing down my spittle? ²⁰ I sinned; what shall I do to thee, guarding men? wherefore didst thou set me for an assault to thee, and I shall be upon myself for a burden? ²¹ And why wilt thou not lift up my transgression and pass over mine iniquity? for now I shall lie down to the dust; and thou soughtest me and I was not