Verse 12
Job 7:12
Geneva Bible
12
Am I a sea or a whalefish, that thou keepest me in warde?
Original Language Text
hebrew
הֲֽ/יָם אָ֭נִי אִם תַּנִּ֑ין כִּֽי תָשִׂ֖ים עָלַ֣/י מִשְׁמָֽר
English Translation
Am I a sea or a dragon that you set a guard over me?
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 7 Context
1
Is there not an appointed time to man vpon earth? and are not his dayes as the dayes of an hyreling?
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2
As a seruant longeth for the shadowe, and as an hyreling looketh for the ende of his worke,
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3
So haue I had as an inheritance the moneths of vanitie, and painefull nights haue bene appointed vnt...
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4
If I layed me downe, I sayde, When shall I arise? and measuring the euening I am euen full with toss...
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5
My flesh is clothed with wormes and filthinesse of the dust: my skinne is rent, and become horrible.
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6
My dayes are swifter then a weauers shittle, and they are spent without hope.
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7
Remember that my life is but a wind, and that mine eye shall not returne to see pleasure.
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8
The eye that hath seene me, shall see me no more: thine eyes are vpon me, and I shall be no longer.
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9
As the cloude vanisheth and goeth away, so he that goeth downe to the graue, shall come vp no more.
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10
He shall returne no more to his house, neither shall his place knowe him any more.
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11
Therefore I will not spare my mouth, but will speake in the trouble of my spirite, and muse in the b...
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12
Am I a sea or a whalefish, that thou keepest me in warde?
13
When I say, My couch shall relieue me, and my bed shall bring comfort in my meditation,
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14
Then fearest thou me with dreames, and astonishest me with visions.
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15
Therefore my soule chuseth rather to be strangled and to die, then to be in my bones.
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16
I abhorre it, I shall not liue alway: spare me then, for my dayes are but vanitie.
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17
What is man, that thou doest magnifie him, and that thou settest thine heart vpon him?
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18
And doest visite him euery morning, and tryest him euery moment?
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19
Howe long will it be yer thou depart from me? thou wilt not let me alone whiles I may swallowe my sp...
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20
I haue sinned, what shall I do vnto thee? O thou preseruer of me, why hast thou set me as a marke ag...
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21
And why doest thou not pardon my trespasse? and take away mine iniquitie? for nowe shall I sleepe in...
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