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

¹² Am I a sea, or a dragon, that thou settest a watch over me? ¹³ When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; ¹⁴ then thou dost scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions. ¹⁵ And my soul thought it better to be strangled and desired death more than my bones. ¹⁶ I loathed life; I do not desire to live for ever; let me alone; for my days are vanity.

¹⁷ What is man that thou should magnify him and that thou should set thine heart upon him ¹⁸ and that thou should visit him every morning and try him every moment? ¹⁹ For how long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone until I swallow down my spittle? ²⁰ If I have sinned, what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself? ²¹ And why dost thou not take away my rebellion and pass over my iniquity? For now I shall sleep in the dust; and if thou shalt seek me in the morning, I shall not be found.