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.
| נָֽקְטָה נַפְשִׁי בְּחַיָּי אֶֽעֶזְבָה עָלַי שִׂיחִי אֲדַבְּרָה בְּמַר נַפְשִֽׁי׃ |
2 I will say vnto God, Condemne mee not: shew me, wherefore thou contendest with mee.
| אֹמַר אֶל־אֱלוֹהַּ אַל־תַּרְשִׁיעֵנִי הֽוֹדִיעֵנִי עַל מַה־תְּרִיבֵֽנִי׃ |
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?
| הֲטוֹב לְךָ ׀ כִּֽי־תַעֲשֹׁק כִּֽי־תִמְאַס יְגִיעַ כַּפֶּיךָ וְעַל־עֲצַת רְשָׁעִים הוֹפָֽעְתָּ׃ |
4 Hast thou carnall eyes? or doest thou see as man seeth?
| הַעֵינֵי בָשָׂר לָךְ אִם־כִּרְאוֹת אֱנוֹשׁ תִּרְאֶֽה׃ |
5 Are thy dayes as mans dayes? or thy yeres, as the time of man,
| הֲכִימֵי אֱנוֹשׁ יָמֶיךָ אִם־שְׁנוֹתֶיךָ כִּימֵי גָֽבֶר׃ |
6 That thou inquirest of mine iniquitie, and searchest out my sinne?
| כִּֽי־תְבַקֵּשׁ לַעֲוֺנִי וּלְחַטָּאתִי תִדְרֽוֹשׁ׃ |
7 Thou knowest that I can not do wickedly: for none can deliuer me out of thine hand.
| עַֽל־דַּעְתְּךָ כִּי־לֹא אֶרְשָׁע וְאֵין מִיָּדְךָ מַצִּֽיל׃ |
8 Thine handes haue made me, and fashioned mee wholy rounde about, and wilt thou destroy me?
| יָדֶיךָ עִצְּבוּנִי וַֽיַּעֲשׂוּנִי יַחַד סָבִיב וַֽתְּבַלְּעֵֽנִי׃ |
9 Remember, I pray thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and wilt thou bring me into dust againe?
| זְכָר־נָא כִּי־כַחֹמֶר עֲשִׂיתָנִי וְֽאֶל־עָפָר תְּשִׁיבֵֽנִי׃ |
10 Hast thou not powred me out as milke? and turned me to cruds like cheese?
| הֲלֹא כֶחָלָב תַּתִּיכֵנִי וְכַגְּבִנָּה תַּקְפִּיאֵֽנִי׃ |
11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and ioyned me together with bones and sinewes.
| עוֹר וּבָשָׂר תַּלְבִּישֵׁנִי וּֽבַעֲצָמוֹת וְגִידִים תְּסֹכְכֵֽנִי׃ |
12 Thou hast giuen me life, and grace: and thy visitation hath preserued my spirit.
| חַיִּים וָחֶסֶד עָשִׂיתָ עִמָּדִי וּפְקֻדָּתְךָ שָֽׁמְרָה רוּחִֽי׃ |
13 Though thou hast hid these things in thine heart, yet I knowe that it is so with thee.
| וְאֵלֶּה צָפַנְתָּ בִלְבָבֶךָ יָדַעְתִּי כִּי־זֹאת עִמָּֽךְ׃ |
14 If I haue sinned, then thou wilt streightly looke vnto me, and wilt not holde mee giltlesse of mine iniquitie.
| אִם־חָטָאתִי וּשְׁמַרְתָּנִי וּמֵעֲוֺנִי לֹא תְנַקֵּֽנִי׃ |
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.
| אִם־רָשַׁעְתִּי אַלְלַי לִי וְצָדַקְתִּי לֹא־אֶשָּׂא רֹאשִׁי שְׂבַע קָלוֹן וּרְאֵה עָנְיֽ͏ִי׃ |
16 But let it increase: hunt thou me as a lyon: returne and shew thy selfe marueilous vpon me.
| וְיִגְאֶה כַּשַּׁחַל תְּצוּדֵנִי וְתָשֹׁב תִּתְפַּלָּא־בִֽי׃ |
17 Thou renuest thy plagues against me, and thou increasest thy wrath against me: changes and armies of sorowes are against me.
| תְּחַדֵּשׁ עֵדֶיךָ ׀ נֶגְדִּי וְתֶרֶב כַּֽעַשְׂךָ עִמָּדִי חֲלִיפוֹת וְצָבָא עִמִּֽי׃ |
18 Wherfore then hast thou brought me out of the wombe? Oh that I had perished, and that none eye had seene me!
| וְלָמָּה מֵרֶחֶם הֹצֵאתָנִי אֶגְוַע וְעַיִן לֹא־תִרְאֵֽנִי׃ |
19 And that I were as I had not bene, but brought from the wombe to the graue!
| כַּאֲשֶׁר לֹא־הָיִיתִי אֶהְיֶה מִבֶּטֶן לַקֶּבֶר אוּבָֽל׃ |
20 Are not my dayes fewe? let him cease, and leaue off from me, that I may take a litle comfort,
| הֲלֹא־מְעַט יָמַי יחדל וַחֲדָל ישית וְשִׁית מִמֶּנִּי וְאַבְלִיגָה מְּעָֽט׃ |
21 Before I goe and shall not returne, euen to the land of darkenesse and shadow of death:
| בְּטֶרֶם אֵלֵךְ וְלֹא אָשׁוּב אֶל־אֶרֶץ חֹשֶׁךְ וְצַלְמָֽוֶת׃ |
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.
| אֶרֶץ עֵיפָתָה ׀ כְּמוֹ אֹפֶל צַלְמָוֶת וְלֹא סְדָרִים וַתֹּפַע כְּמוֹ־אֹֽפֶל׃ |
