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 God, Do not condemn me; show me wherefore you contend 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 you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your 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?
Have you eyes of flesh? or see you as man sees?
5 Or is thy life human, or thy years [the years] of a man,
Are your days as the days of man? are your years as man's days,
6 that thou hast enquired into mine iniquity, and searched out my sins?
That you enquire after mine iniquity, and search after my sin?
7 For thou knowest that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that can deliver out of thy hands?
You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of your hand.
8 Thy hands have formed me and made me; afterwards thou didst change [thy mind], and smite me.
your hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet you do destroy me.
9 Remember that thou hast made me [as] clay, and thou dost turn me again to earth.
Remember, I plead to you, that you have made me as the clay; and will you bring me into dust again?
10 Hast thou not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?
Have you 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.
You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and have fenced me with bones and sinews.
12 And thou didst bestow upon me life and mercy, and thy oversight has preserved my spirit.
You have granted me life and favour, and your visitation has 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 have you hid in your heart: I know that this is with you.
14 And if I should sin, thou watchest me; and thou hast not cleared me from iniquity.
If I sin, then you mark me, and you will 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 you mine affliction;
16 For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again thou hast changed and art terribly destroying me;
For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion: and again you show yourself 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.
You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your 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 have you brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the spirit, 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.
