Job 7:7

In 11 translations

BSB

Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.

KJV

O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.shall…: Heb. shall not returnsee: to see, that is, to enjoy

WEB

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

ASV

Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good.

LSV

Remember that my life [is] a breath, || My eye does not turn back to see good.

YLT

Remember Thou that my life [is] a breath, Mine eye turneth not back to see good.

DBY

Remember thou that my life is wind; mine eye shall no more see good.

DRC

Remember that my life is but wind, and my eyes shall not return to see good things.

GNV

Remember that my life is but a wind, and that mine eye shall not returne to see pleasure.

JPS

O remember that my life is a breath; mine eye shall no more see good.

LXXE

Remember then that my life is breath, and mine eye shall not yet again see good.

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Original-language editions

WLC

זְ֭כֹר כִּי־ר֣וּחַ חַיָּ֑י לֹא־תָשׁ֥וּב עֵ֝ינִ֗י לִרְא֥וֹת טֽוֹב׃

LXX-Br

Μνήσθητι οὖν ὅτι πνεῦμά μου ἡ ζωὴ, καὶ οὐκ ἔτι ἐπανελεύσεται ὀφθαλμός μου ἰδεῖν ἀγαθόν.

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Cross-references most cited first

• James 4:14You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
• Psalms 78:39He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
• Psalms 89:47Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
• Jeremiah 15:15You understand, O LORD; remember me and attend to me. Avenge me against my persecutors. In Your patience, do not take me away. Know that I endure reproach for Your honor.
• Psalms 74:18Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.
• Psalms 89:50Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people—
• Job 10:21–22before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom, to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
• Nehemiah 1:8Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses when You said, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations,
• Genesis 42:36Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!”
• Job 9:25My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.
• Psalms 74:22Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long.
• Job 10:9Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?

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