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 hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I 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 say unto God, 'Do not condemn me, Let me know why Thou dost strive [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 for Thee that Thou dost oppress? That Thou despisest the labour of Thy hands, And on the counsel of the wicked hast shone?
4 Or do you see as a mortal sees? or will you look as a man sees?
Eyes of flesh hast Thou? As man seeth — seest Thou?
5 Or is your life human, or your years [the years] of a man,
As the days of man [are] Thy days? Thy years as the days of a man?
6 that you have enquired into mine iniquity, and searched out my sins?
That Thou inquirest for mine iniquity, And for my sin seekest?
7 For you know that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that can deliver out of your hands?
For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Thy hand.
8 Your hands have formed me and made me; afterwards you did change [your mind], and strike me.
Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up!
9 Remember that you have made me [as] clay, and you do turn me again to earth.
Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back.
10 Hast you not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?
Dost Thou not as milk pour me out? And as cheese curdle me?
11 And you did clothe me with skin and flesh, and frame me with bones and sinews.
Skin and flesh Thou dost put on me, And with bones and sinews dost fence me.
12 And you did bestow upon me life and mercy, and your oversight has preserved my spirit.
Life and kindness Thou hast done with me. And Thy inspection hath 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 Thou hast laid up in Thy heart, I have known that this [is] with Thee.
14 And if I should sin, you watch me; and you have not cleared me from iniquity.
If I sinned, then Thou hast observed me, And from mine iniquity dost not acquit me,
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 have done wickedly — woe to me, And righteously — I lift not up my head, Full of shame — then see my affliction,
16 For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again you have changed and are terribly destroying me;
And it riseth — as a lion Thou huntest me. And Thou turnest back — Thou shewest Thyself wonderful in me.
17 renewing against me my torture: and you have dealt with me in great anger, and you have brought trials upon me.
Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with 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,
And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.
19 and I become as if I had not been? for why was I not carried from the womb to the grave?
As I had not been, I am, From the belly to the grave I am brought,
20 Is not the time of my life short? suffer me to rest a little,
Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,
21 before I go whence I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess;
Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,
22 to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither [can any one] see the life of mortals.
A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade — and no order, And the shining [is] as thick darkness.'
