Jó 7— comparação

1“Não é o homem forçado a trabalhar na terra?

2Como um servo que anseia pela sombra,

3assim recebi por herança meses de miséria,

4Quando me deito, eu digo:

5Minha carne está vestida de vermes e torrões de pó.

6Meus dias são mais velozes do que a lançadeira do tecelão,

7Oh, lembre-se de que minha vida é um sopro.

8O olho daquele que me vê não me verá mais.

9Assim como a nuvem se desfaz e desaparece,

10Ele não voltará mais para a sua casa,

11“Portanto, não ficarei calado.

12Sou eu o mar, ou um monstro marinho,

13Quando digo: 'Minha cama me consolará.

14então você me assusta com sonhos

15de modo que a minha alma escolhe o estrangulamento,

16Eu detesto a minha vida.

17O que é o homem, para que você o engrandeça,

18para que você o visite a cada manhã,

19Até quando você não desviará de mim o olhar,

20Se pequei, o que faço a você, ó observador dos homens?

21Por que você não perdoa a minha desobediência, e não tira a minha iniquidade?

1“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?

2As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,

3so I am made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.

4When I lie down, I say, ‘When will I arise, and the night be gone?’ I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.

5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

7Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.

8The eye of him who sees me will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.

9As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.

10He will return no more to his house, neither will his place know him any more.

11“Therefore I will not keep silent. 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 monster, that you put a guard over me?

13When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint,’

14then you scare me with dreams and terrify me through visions,

15so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.

16I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

17What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

18that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?

19How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

20If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?

21Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”