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.
“I am tired of living. And I will not be silent and stop saying what I am complaining about. Instead, being very unhappy, I will speak [IDM].
2 I will say to God: Do not condemn me: tell me why thou judgest me so.
I will say to God, ‘Do not say that I must be punished; instead, tell me what wrong you are saying that I have done.
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?
Does it seem to be good for you to oppress me, to abandon me, whom you created, and instead, to help wicked people to do the things that they plan to do?
4 Hast thou eyes of flesh: or, shalt thou see as man seeth?
Do you understand things the way that we humans do?
5 Are thy days as the days of man, and are thy years as the times of men:
(Do you live for only a few years, like we do?/You certainly do not live for only a few years, like we do.) [RHQ]
6 That thou shouldst inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?
So, why do you [RHQ] continue to search for my faults? Why do you hunt for 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.
You know that I am not guilty, and that no one can rescue me from your power [MTY].
8 Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me wholly round about, and dost thou thus cast me down headlong on a sudden?
“'With your hands you created me and shaped/formed my body; but now you are [deciding that you should not have done that, and you are] destroying me.
9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and thou wilt bring me into dust again.
Do not forget that you made me from [a piece of] clay; are you going to cause me to become dirt again [RHQ]?
10 Hast thou not milked me as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
You certainly [RHQ] directed/controlled it when I was conceived, and you formed me inside my mother’s womb [MET].
11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh: thou hast put me together with bones and sinews:
You fastened my bones together with sinews, and [then] you covered them with flesh inside my skin.
12 Thou hast granted me life and mercy, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
You have caused me to be alive, and you have faithfully loved me, and you have carefully (preserved me/kept me alive).
13 Although thou conceal these things in thy heart, yet I know that thou rememberest all things.
“'But you (kept secret/did not reveal) what [you were planning to do to me]; I am certain that you were planning [to do] these [things to me].
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?
You were watching to see if I would sin, in order that [if I sinned, ] you would refuse to forgive me.
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.
If I am a wicked man, I hope/wish that terrible things will happen to me. But even if I am righteous, I still must bow my head [and feel ashamed], because I am very disgraced and feel miserable.
16 And for pride thou wilt take me as a lioness, and returning thou tormentest me wonderfully.
And if I am proud, you hunt me like [SIM] a lion hunts [for some animal to kill], and you act powerfully to injure me.
17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and multipliest thy wrath upon me, and pains war against me.
You constantly find more witnesses [to testify that I have done what is wrong], and you continually become more angry/perturbed with me. [It is as though] you are always bringing new troops to attack me.
18 Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb: O that I had been consumed that eye might not see me!
“'God, why did you allow me to be born? I wish/desire that I had died before anyone [SYN] saw me.
19 I should have been as if I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.
[I consider that] it would have been better if I had been carried directly from my mother’s womb to the grave than for me to live.
20 Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? suffer me, therefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little:
[I think that] [RHQ] there are only a few days for me to remain alive; so (allow me to be alone/stop attacking me), in order that I may be a little cheerful
21 Before I go, and return no more, to a land that is dark and covered with the mist of death:
before I go to the place from which I will never return, where it is always gloomy and very dark [DOU],
22 A land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and no order, but everlasting horror dwelleth.
a place of darkness and dark shadows, where [everything] is confused/disordered, where [even a small amount of] light there is like darkness (OR, there is no light, only darkness).’”
