Job 10
1 My soul is weary of my life. I will give free reign to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
“My soul has been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2 I will say to God, Do not condemn me. Show me why thou contend with me.
I say to God, Do not condemn me, Let me know why You strive [with] me.
3 Is it good to thee that thou should oppress, that thou should despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
Is it good for You that You oppress? That You despise the labor of Your hands, And shine on the counsel of the wicked?
4 Have thou eyes of flesh? Or do thou see as man sees?
Do you have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?
5 Are thy days as the days of man, or thy years as man's days,
[Are] Your days as the days of man? Your years as the days of a man?
6 that thou inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin,
That You inquire for my iniquity, And seek for my sin?
7 although thou know that I am not wicked. And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?
For You know that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Your hand.
8 Thy hands have made me and fashioned me together round about, yet thou destroy me.
Your hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together all around, And You swallow me up!
9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou have fashioned me as clay. And will thou bring me into dust again?
Please remember That You have made me as clay, And You bring me back to dust.
10 Have thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
Do You not pour me out as milk? And curdle me as cheese?
11 Thou have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
Skin and flesh You put on me, And fence me with bones and sinews.
12 Thou have granted me life and loving kindness, and thy visitation has preserved my spirit.
Life and kindness You have done with me. And Your inspection has preserved my spirit.
13 Yet these things thou hid in thy heart. I know that this is with thee.
And these You have laid up in Your heart, I have known that this [is] with You.
14 If I sin, then thou mark me. And thou will not acquit me from my iniquity.
If I sinned, then You have observed me, And do not acquit me from my iniquity,
15 If I be wicked, woe to me. And if I be righteous, yet I shall not lift up my head, being filled with shame, and looking upon my affliction.
If I have done wickedly—woe to me, And righteously—I do not lift up my head, Full of shame—then see my affliction,
16 And if my head exalts itself, thou hunt me as a lion. And again thou show thyself marvelous upon me.
And it rises—as a lion You hunt me. And You turn back—You show Yourself wonderful in me.
17 Thou renew thy witnesses against me, and increase thine indignation upon me. Changes and warfare are with me.
You renew Your witnesses against me, and multiply Your anger with me, Changes and warfare [are] with me.
18 Why then have thou brought me forth out of the womb? I would have given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
And why from the womb Have You brought me forth? I expire, and the eye does not see me.
19 I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
I am as [if] I had not been, I am brought from the belly to the grave,
20 Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little
Are my days not few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,
21 before I go where I shall not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death,
Before I go, and do not return, To a land of darkness and death-shade,
22 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as midnight.
A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade—and no order, And the shining [is] as thick darkness.”
