Job 10
1 My soule is cut off though I liue: I wil leaue my complaint vpon my selfe, and wil speake in the bitternesse of my soule.
I am weary of my life; I will let loose within me my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2 I will say vnto God, Condemne mee not: shew me, wherefore thou contendest with mee.
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me! Show me wherefore thou contendest with me!
3 Thinkest thou it good to oppresse me, and to cast off the labour of thine handes, and to fauour the counsel of the wicked?
Is it a pleasure to thee to oppress, And to despise the work of thy hands, And to shine upon the plans of the wicked?
4 Hast thou carnall eyes? or doest thou see as man seeth?
Hast thou eyes of flesh, Or seest thou as man seeth?
5 Are thy dayes as mans dayes? or thy yeres, as the time of man,
Are thy days as the days of a man, Are thy years as the days of a mortal,
6 That thou inquirest of mine iniquitie, and searchest out my sinne?
That thou seekest after my iniquity, And searchest after my sin,
7 Thou knowest that I can not do wickedly: for none can deliuer me out of thine hand.
Though thou knowest that I am not guilty, And that none can deliver from thy hand?
8 Thine handes haue made me, and fashioned mee wholy rounde about, and wilt thou destroy me?
Have thy hands completely fashioned and made me In every part, that thou mightst destroy me?
9 Remember, I pray thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and wilt thou bring me into dust againe?
O remember that thou hast moulded me as clay! And wilt thou bring me again to dust?
10 Hast thou not powred me out as milke? and turned me to cruds like cheese?
Thou didst pour me out as milk, And curdle me as cheese;
11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and ioyned me together with bones and sinewes.
With skin and flesh didst thou clothe me, And strengthen me with bones and sinews;
12 Thou hast giuen me life, and grace: and thy visitation hath preserued my spirit.
Thou didst grant me life and favor, And thy protection preserved my breath:
13 Though thou hast hid these things in thine heart, yet I knowe that it is so with thee.
Yet these things thou didst lay up in thy heart! I know that this was in thy mind.
14 If I haue sinned, then thou wilt streightly looke vnto me, and wilt not holde mee giltlesse of mine iniquitie.
If I sin, then thou markest me, And wilt not acquit me of mine iniquity.
15 If I haue done wickedly, wo vnto me: if I haue done righteously, I will not lift vp mine head, being full of confusion, because I see mine affliction.
If I am wicked, —then woe unto me! Yet if righteous, I dare not lift up my head; I am full of confusion, beholding my affliction.
16 But let it increase: hunt thou me as a lyon: returne and shew thy selfe marueilous vpon me.
If I lift it up, like a lion thou huntest me, And again showest thyself terrible unto me.
17 Thou renuest thy plagues against me, and thou increasest thy wrath against me: changes and armies of sorowes are against me.
Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, And increasest thine anger toward me; New hosts continually rise up against me.
18 Wherfore then hast thou brought me out of the wombe? Oh that I had perished, and that none eye had seene me!
Why then didst thou bring me forth from the womb? I should have perished, and no eye had seen me;
19 And that I were as I had not bene, but brought from the wombe to the graue!
I should be as though I had not been; I should have been borne from the womb to the grave.
20 Are not my dayes fewe? let him cease, and leaue off from me, that I may take a litle comfort,
Are not my days few? O spare then, And let me alone, that I may be at ease a little while,
21 Before I goe and shall not returne, euen to the land of darkenesse and shadow of death:
Before I go— whence I shall not return—To the land of darkness and death-shade,
22 Into a land, I say, darke as darknes it selfe, and into the shadow of death, where is none order, but the light is there as darkenesse.
The land of darkness like the blackness of death-shade, Where is no order, and where the light is as darkness.
