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 therefore have you thus judged me?
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; show me wherefore you 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 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 do you see as a mortal sees? or will you look as a man sees?
Have you eyes of flesh? or see you as man sees?
5 Or is your life human, or your years [the years] of a man,
Are your days as the days of man? are your years as man's days,
6 that you have enquired into mine iniquity, and searched out my sins?
That you enquire after mine 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?
You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of your hand.
8 Your hands have formed me and made me; afterwards you did change [your mind], and strike me.
your hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet you do destroy me.
9 Remember that you have made me [as] clay, and you do 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 you 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 you did 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 you did bestow upon me life and mercy, and your oversight has preserved my spirit.
You have granted me life and favour, and your 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.
And these things have you hid in your heart: I know that this is with you.
14 And if I should sin, you watch me; and you have 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 can’t 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 you have changed and are 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 you have dealt with me in great anger, and you have 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 did you 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.
