Job 10
1 Weary in my soul, I will pour my words with groans upon him: I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul.
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2 And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and wherefore hast thou thus judged me?
I will say unto Eloah, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
3 Is it good before thee if I be unrighteous? for thou hast disowned the work of thy hands, and attended to the counsel of the ungodly.
Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
4 Or dost thou see as a mortal sees? or wilt thou look as a man sees?
Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
5 Or is thy life human, or thy years [the years] of a man,
Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,
6 that thou hast enquired into mine iniquity, and searched out my sins?
That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
7 For thou knowest that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that can deliver out of thy hands?
Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
8 Thy hands have formed me and made me; afterwards thou didst change [thy mind], and smite me.
Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
9 Remember that thou hast made me [as] clay, and thou dost turn me again to earth.
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
10 Hast thou not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?
Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
11 And thou didst clothe me with skin and flesh, and frame me with bones and sinews.
Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
12 And thou didst bestow upon me life and mercy, and thy oversight has preserved my spirit.
Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
13 Having these things in thyself, I know that thou canst do all things; for nothing is impossible with thee.
And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.
14 And if I should sin, thou watchest me; and thou hast not cleared me from iniquity.
If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
15 Or if I should be ungodly, woe is me: and if I should be righteous, I cannot lift myself up, for I am full of dishonour.
If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
16 For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again thou hast changed and art terribly destroying me;
For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
17 renewing against me my torture: and thou hast dealt with me in great anger, and thou hast brought trials upon me.
Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
18 Why then didst thou bring me out of the womb? and why did I not die, and no eye see me,
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
19 and I become as if I had not been? for why was I not carried from the womb to the grave?
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
20 Is not the time of my life short? suffer me to rest a little,
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
21 before I go whence I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess;
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
22 to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither [can any one] see the life of mortals.
A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
