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 give free reign to my complaint. 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 therefore have you thus judged me?
I will say to God, Do not condemn me. Show me why thou contend with me.
3 Is it good before you if I be unrighteous? for you have disowned the work of your hands, and attended to the counsel of the ungodly.
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?
4 Or do you see as a mortal sees? or will you look as a man sees?
Have thou eyes of flesh? Or do thou see as man sees?
5 Or is your life human, or your years [the years] of a man,
Are thy days as the days of man, or thy years as man's days,
6 that you have enquired into mine iniquity, and searched out my sins?
that thou inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin,
7 For you know that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that can deliver out of your hands?
although thou know that I am not wicked. And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?
8 Your hands have formed me and made me; afterwards you did change [your mind], and strike me.
Thy hands have made me and fashioned me together round about, yet thou destroy me.
9 Remember that you have made me [as] clay, and you do turn me again to earth.
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou have fashioned me as clay. And will thou bring me into dust again?
10 Hast you not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?
Have thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
11 And you did clothe me with skin and flesh, and frame me with bones and sinews.
Thou have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
12 And you did bestow upon me life and mercy, and your oversight has preserved my spirit.
Thou have granted me life and loving kindness, and thy visitation has preserved my spirit.
13 Having these things in yourself, I know that you can do all things; for nothing is impossible with you.
Yet these things thou hid in thy heart. I know that this is with thee.
14 And if I should sin, you watch me; and you have not cleared me from iniquity.
If I sin, then thou mark me. And thou will not acquit me from my iniquity.
15 Or if I should be ungodly, woe is me: and if I should be righteous, I can’t lift myself up, for I am full of dishonour.
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.
16 For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again you have changed and are terribly destroying me;
And if my head exalts itself, thou hunt me as a lion. And again thou show thyself marvelous upon me.
17 renewing against me my torture: and you have dealt with me in great anger, and you have brought trials upon me.
Thou renew thy witnesses against me, and increase thine indignation upon me. Changes and warfare are with me.
18 Why then did you bring me out of the womb? and why did I not die, and no eye see me,
Why then have thou brought me forth out of the womb? I would have 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 where I shall not return, to the land of darkness and of 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.
the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as midnight.
