Job 10
1 “I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
I am weary of my life; I will let loose within me my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2 I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me! Show me wherefore thou contendest with me!
3 Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?
Is it a pleasure to thee to oppress, And to despise the work of thy hands, And to shine upon the plans of the wicked?
4 Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?
Hast thou eyes of flesh, Or seest thou as man seeth?
5 Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man,
Are thy days as the days of a man, Are thy years as the days of a mortal,
6 that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin—
That thou seekest after my iniquity, And searchest after my sin,
7 though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
Though thou knowest that I am not guilty, And that none can deliver from thy hand?
8 Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
Have thy hands completely fashioned and made me In every part, that thou mightst destroy me?
9 Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
O remember that thou hast moulded me as clay! And wilt thou bring me again to dust?
10 Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?
Thou didst pour me out as milk, And curdle me as cheese;
11 You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
With skin and flesh didst thou clothe me, And strengthen me with bones and sinews;
12 You have granted me life and loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit.
Thou didst grant me life and favor, And thy protection preserved my breath:
13 Yet You concealed these things in Your heart, and I know that this was in Your mind:
Yet these things thou didst lay up in thy heart! I know that this was in thy mind.
14 If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.
If I sin, then thou markest me, And wilt not acquit me of mine iniquity.
15 If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.
If I am wicked, —then woe unto me! Yet if righteous, I dare not lift up my head; I am full of confusion, beholding my affliction.
16 Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.
If I lift it up, like a lion thou huntest me, And again showest thyself terrible unto me.
17 You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.
Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, And increasest thine anger toward me; New hosts continually rise up against me.
18 Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
Why then didst thou bring me forth from the womb? I should have perished, and no eye had seen me;
19 If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
I should be as though I had not been; I should have been borne from the womb to the grave.
20 Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,
Are not my days few? O spare then, And let me alone, that I may be at ease a little while,
21 before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom,
Before I go— whence I shall not return—To the land of darkness and death-shade,
22 to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
The land of darkness like the blackness of death-shade, Where is no order, and where the light is as darkness.
