Job 10
1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon 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 unto God, Do not condemn me; show me wherefore you contend with me.
And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and therefore have you thus judged me?
3 Is it good unto you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
Is it good before you if I be unrighteous? for you have disowned the work of your hands, and attended to the counsel of the ungodly.
4 Have you eyes of flesh? or see you as man sees?
Or do you see as a mortal sees? or will you look as a man sees?
5 Are your days as the days of man? are your years as man's days,
Or is your life human, or your years [the years] of a man,
6 That you enquire after mine iniquity, and search after my sin?
that you have 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 you know that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that can deliver out of your hands?
8 your hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet you do destroy me.
Your hands have formed me and made me; afterwards you did change [your mind], and strike me.
9 Remember, I plead to you, that you have made me as the clay; and will you bring me into dust again?
Remember that you have made me [as] clay, and you do turn me again to earth.
10 Have you not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
Hast you 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 you did clothe me with skin and flesh, and frame me with bones and sinews.
12 You have granted me life and favour, and your visitation has preserved my spirit.
And you did bestow upon me life and mercy, and your 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 yourself, I know that you can do all things; for nothing is impossible with you.
14 If I sin, then you mark me, and you will not acquit me from mine iniquity.
And if I should sin, you watch me; and you have not cleared me from iniquity.
15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see you mine affliction;
Or if I should be ungodly, woe is me: and if I should be righteous, I can’t lift myself up, for I am full of dishonor.
16 For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion: and again you show yourself marvellous upon me.
For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again you have changed and are terribly destroying me;
17 You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
renewing against me my torture: and you have dealt with me in great anger, and you have brought trials upon me.
18 Wherefore then have you brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me!
Why then did you 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 whence 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.
