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Job Continues: Life Seems Futile

Job 7:8

In 11 translations

BSB
The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.
KJV
The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.I am…: that is, I can live no longer
WEB
The eye of him who sees me will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.
ASV
The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.
LSV
The eye of my beholder does not behold me. Your eyes [are] on me—and I am not.
YLT
The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes [are] upon me — and I am not.
DBY
The eye of him that hath seen me shall behold me no [more]: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
DRC
Nor shall the sight of man behold me: thy eyes are upon me, and I shall be no more.
GNV
The eye that hath seene me, shall see me no more: thine eyes are vpon me, and I shall be no longer.
JPS
The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; while Thine eyes are upon me, I am gone.
LXXE
The eye of him that sees me shall not see me again: thine eyes are upon me, and I am no more.

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Original-language editions

WLC
לֹֽא־תְ֭שׁוּרֵנִי עֵ֣ין רֹ֑אִי עֵינֶ֖יךָ בִּ֣י וְאֵינֶֽנִּי׃
LXX-Br
Οὐ περιβλέψεταί με ὀφθαλμὸς ὁρῶντός με, οἱ ὀφθαλμοί σου ἐν ἐμοί, καὶ οὐκ ἔτι εἰμί·

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 20:9The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.
  • Psalms 37:36yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.
  • Job 8:18If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’
  • Job 13:27You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
  • Psalms 90:8–9You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence. For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.
  • Psalms 39:11You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
  • Job 14:3Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?

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