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 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 vnto God, Condemne mee not: shew me, wherefore thou contendest with mee.
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 Thinkest thou it good to oppresse me, and to cast off the labour of thine handes, and to fauour 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 carnall eyes? or doest thou see as man seeth?
Do you understand things the way that we humans do?
5 Are thy dayes as mans dayes? or thy yeres, as the time of man,
(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 inquirest of mine iniquitie, and searchest out my sinne?
So, why do you [RHQ] continue to search for my faults? Why do you hunt for my sins?
7 Thou knowest that I can not do wickedly: for none can deliuer me out of thine hand.
You know that I am not guilty, and that no one can rescue me from your power [MTY].
8 Thine handes haue made me, and fashioned mee wholy rounde about, and wilt thou destroy me?
“'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 pray thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and wilt thou bring me into dust againe?
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 powred me out as milke? and turned me to cruds 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, and ioyned me together with bones and sinewes.
You fastened my bones together with sinews, and [then] you covered them with flesh inside my skin.
12 Thou hast giuen me life, and grace: and thy visitation hath preserued 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 Though thou hast hid these things in thine heart, yet I knowe that it is so with thee.
“'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 haue sinned, then thou wilt streightly looke vnto me, and wilt not holde mee giltlesse of mine iniquitie.
You were watching to see if I would sin, in order that [if I sinned, ] you would refuse to forgive me.
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 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 But let it increase: hunt thou me as a lyon: returne and shew thy selfe marueilous vpon me.
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 renuest thy plagues against me, and thou increasest thy wrath against me: changes and armies of sorowes are 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 Wherfore then hast thou brought me out of the wombe? Oh that I had perished, and that none eye had seene me!
“'God, why did you allow me to be born? I wish/desire that I had died before anyone [SYN] saw me.
19 And that I were as I had not bene, but brought from the wombe to the graue!
[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 Are not my dayes fewe? let him cease, and leaue off from me, that I may take a litle comfort,
[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 goe and shall not returne, euen to the land of darkenesse and shadow of death:
before I go to the place from which I will never return, where it is always gloomy and very dark [DOU],
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.
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).’”
