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Job’s Second Speech: A Response to Eliphaz

“Does not a human being[a] have hard service[b] on earth?
And are not his[c] days like the days of a laborer?
Like a slave he longs for the shadow,
and like a laborer he waits for his wages.
So I had to inherit[d] months of worthlessness,
and nights of misery are apportioned to me.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 7:1 Or a collective singular, “human beings”
  2. Job 7:1 Literally “hard service for a human being”
  3. Job 7:1 Or a collective singular, “their”
  4. Job 7:3 Literally “I am allotted to me”