Job 10
1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint on 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; show me why you contend with me.
And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and wherefore hast thou thus judged me?
3 Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and shine on the counsel of the wicked?
Is it good before thee if I be unrighteous? for thou hast disowned the work of thy hands, and attended to the counsel of the ungodly.
4 Have you eyes of flesh? or see you as man sees?
Or dost thou see as a mortal sees? or wilt thou look as a man sees?
5 Are your days as the days of man? are your years as man’s days,
Or is thy life human, or thy years [the years] of a man,
6 That you enquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?
that thou hast enquired into mine iniquity, and searched out my sins?
7 You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of your hand.
For thou knowest that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that can deliver out of thy hands?
8 Your hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet you do destroy me.
Thy hands have formed me and made me; afterwards thou didst change [thy mind], and smite me.
9 Remember, I beseech you, that you have made me as the clay; and will you bring me into dust again?
Remember that thou hast made me [as] clay, and thou dost turn me again to earth.
10 Have you not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
Hast thou not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?
11 You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and have fenced me with bones and sinews.
And thou didst clothe me with skin and flesh, and frame me with bones and sinews.
12 You have granted me life and favor, and your visitation has preserved my spirit.
And thou didst bestow upon me life and mercy, and thy oversight has preserved my spirit.
13 And these things have you hid in your heart: I know that this is with you.
Having these things in thyself, I know that thou canst do all things; for nothing is impossible with thee.
14 If I sin, then you mark me, and you will not acquit me from my iniquity.
And if I should sin, thou watchest me; and thou hast not cleared me from iniquity.
15 If I be wicked, woe to me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see you my affliction;
Or if I should be ungodly, woe is me: and if I should be righteous, I cannot lift myself up, for I am full of dishonour.
16 For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion: and again you show yourself marvelous on me.
For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again thou hast changed and art terribly destroying me;
17 You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me; changes and war are against me.
renewing against me my torture: and thou hast dealt with me in great anger, and thou hast brought trials upon me.
18 Why then have you brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
Why then didst thou bring me out of the womb? and why did I not die, and no eye see me,
19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have 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 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
Is not the time of my life short? suffer me to rest a little,
21 Before I go from where I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
before I go whence I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess;
22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither [can any one] see the life of mortals.
