Job 7:7
Good News Translation
Remember, O God, my life is only a breath; my happiness has already ended.

New Revised Standard Version
“Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.

Contemporary English Version
I beg you, God, don't forget! My life is just a breath, and trouble lies ahead.

New American Bible
Remember that my life is like the wind; my eye will not see happiness again.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Remember that my life is but wind, and my eye shall not return to see good things.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

remember.

Job 10:9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and thou wilt bring me into dust

Genesis 42:36 Their father Jacob said: You have made me to be without children: Joseph is not living, Simeon is kept in bonds, and Benjamin you will take away: all these evils are fallen upon me.

Nehemiah 1:8 Remember the word that thou commandedst to Moses thy servant, saying: If you shall transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:

Psalm 74:18,22 Remember this, the enemy hath reproached the Lord: and a foolish people hath provoked thy name. . . .

Psalm 89:47,50 Remember what my substance is: for hast thou made all the children of men in vain? . . .

Jeremiah 15:15 O Lord, thou knowest, remember me, and visit me, and defend me from them that persecute me, do not defend me in thy patience: know that for thy sake I have suffered reproach.

my life.

Psalm 78:39 And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and returneth not.

James 4:14 Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.

no more see.

Job 10:21,22 Before I go and return no more, to a land that is dark and covered with the mist of death: . . .

Context
Job Continues: Life Seems Futile
6My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope. 7Remember that my life is but wind, and my eye shall not return to see good things.8Nor shall the sight of man behold me: thy eyes are upon me, and I shall be no more.…
Cross References
James 4:14
Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.

Job 7:16
I have done with hope, I shall now live no longer: spare me, for my days are nothing.

Job 9:25
My days have been swifter than a post: they have fled away and have not seen good.

Psalm 4:6
The light of thy countenance, O Lord, is signed upon us: thou hast given gladness in my heart.

Psalm 78:39
And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and returneth not.

Psalm 89:47
Remember what my substance is: for hast thou made all the children of men in vain?

Job 7:6
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