Job 7:13–15

When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,

my couch will ease my complaint,’

then you scare me with dreams

and terrify me with visions,

so that I would choose strangling

and death rather than my bones.

When I think my bed will comfort me

and my couch will ease my complaint,

even then you frighten me with dreams

and terrify me with visions,

so that I prefer strangling and death,

rather than this body of mine.

When I say, “My bed will comfort me,

and my couch will ease my complaint,”

then you frighten me with dreams,

and terrify me with visions,

so that I prefer strangling—

death rather than life in this body.

I think, ‘My bed will comfort me,

and sleep will ease my misery,’

but then you shatter me with dreams

and terrify me with visions.

I would rather be strangled—

rather die than suffer like this.

When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,

and my couch will ease my complaint,’

then you terrify me with dreams,

and with visions you terrify me.

So my inner self will choose strangling—

death more than my existence.

When I say, My bed shall comfort me,

My couch shall ease my complaint;

Then thou scarest me with dreams,

And terrifiest me through visions:

So that my soul chooseth strangling,

And death rather than my life.