Job 10

1 My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech against myself, 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 to God: Do not condemn me: tell me why thou judgest me so.

And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and therefore have you thus judged me?

3 Doth it seem good to thee that thou shouldst calumniate me, and oppress me, the work of thy own hands, and help 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, shalt thou see 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 man, and are thy years as the times of men:

Or is your life human, or your years [the years] of a man,

6 That thou shouldst inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

that you have enquired into mine iniquity, and searched out my sins?

7 And shouldst know that I have done no wicked thing, whereas there is no man that can deliver 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 made me, and fashioned me wholly round about, and dost thou thus cast me down headlong on a sudden?

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 the clay, and thou 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 milked me 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: thou hast put 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 mercy, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.

And you did bestow upon me life and mercy, and your oversight has preserved my spirit.

13 Although thou conceal these things in thy heart, yet I know that thou rememberest all things.

Having these things in yourself, I know that you can do all things; for nothing is impossible with you.

14 If I have sinned and thou hast spared me for an hour: why dost thou not suffer me to be clean from my iniquity?

And if I should sin, you watch me; and you have not cleared me from iniquity.

15 And if I be wicked, woe unto me: and if just, I shall not lift up my head, being filled with affliction and misery.

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 dishonor.

16 And for pride thou wilt take me as a lioness, and returning thou tormentest me wonderfully.

For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again you have changed and are terribly destroying me;

17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and multipliest thy wrath upon me, and pains war against me.

renewing against me my torture: and you have dealt with me in great anger, and you have brought trials upon me.

18 Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb: O that I had been consumed that eye might not see 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 have been as if I had not 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 Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? suffer me, therefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little:

Is not the time of my life short? suffer me to rest a little,

21 Before I go, and return no more, to a land that is dark and covered with the mist of death:

before I go whence I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess;

22 A land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and no order, but everlasting horror dwelleth.

to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither [can any one] see the life of mortals.