Job 10
1 My soul is weary of my life: I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Weary in my soul, I will pour my words with groans upon him: I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul.
2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou strivest with me.
And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and therefore have you thus judged me?
3 Doth it please thee to oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
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.
4 Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
Or do you see as a mortal sees? or will you look as a man sees?
5 Are thy days as the days of a mortal? are thy years as a man's days,
Or is your life human, or your years [the years] of a man,
6 That thou searchest after mine iniquity, and inquirest into my sin;
that you have enquired into mine iniquity, and searched out my sins?
7 Since thou knowest that I am not wicked, and that there is none that delivereth out of thy hand?
For you know that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that can deliver out of your hands?
8 Thy hands have bound me together and made me as one, round about; yet dost thou swallow me up!
Your hands have formed me and made me; afterwards you did change [your mind], and strike me.
9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as clay, and wilt bring me into dust again.
Remember that you have made me [as] clay, and you do turn me again to earth.
10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
Hast you not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?
11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews;
And you did clothe me with skin and flesh, and frame me with bones and sinews.
12 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy care hath preserved my spirit;
And you did bestow upon me life and mercy, and your oversight has preserved my spirit.
13 And these things didst thou hide in thy heart; I know that this was with thee.
Having these things in yourself, I know that you can do all things; for nothing is impossible with you.
14 If I sinned, thou wouldest mark me, and thou wouldest not acquit me of mine iniquity.
And if I should sin, you watch me; and you have not cleared me from iniquity.
15 If I were wicked, woe unto me! and righteous, I will not lift up my head, being [so] full of shame, and beholding mine affliction; —
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.
16 And it increaseth: thou huntest me as a fierce lion; and ever again thou shewest thy marvellous power upon me.
For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again you have changed and are terribly destroying me;
17 Thou renewest thy witnesses before me and increasest thy displeasure against me; successions [of evil] and a time of toil are with me.
renewing against me my torture: and you have dealt with me in great anger, and you have brought trials upon me.
18 And wherefore didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? I had expired, and no eye had seen me.
Why then did you bring me out of the womb? and why did I not die, and no eye see me,
19 I should be as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
and I become as if I had not been? for why was I not carried from the womb to the grave?
20 Are not my days few? cease then and let me alone, that I may revive a little,
Is not the time of my life short? suffer me to rest a little,
21 Before I go, and never to return, — to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
before I go whence I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess;
22 A land of gloom, as darkness itself; of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as thick darkness.
to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither [can any one] see the life of mortals.
