Job 10
1 Weary in my soul, I will pour my words with groans upon him: I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul.
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.
2 And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and therefore have you thus judged me?
I will say vnto God, Condemne mee not: shew me, wherefore thou contendest with mee.
3 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.
Thinkest thou it good to oppresse me, and to cast off the labour of thine handes, and to fauour the counsel of the wicked?
4 Or do you see as a mortal sees? or will you look as a man sees?
Hast thou carnall eyes? or doest thou see as man seeth?
5 Or is your life human, or your years [the years] of a man,
Are thy dayes as mans dayes? or thy yeres, as the time of man,
6 that you have enquired into mine iniquity, and searched out my sins?
That thou inquirest of mine iniquitie, and searchest out my sinne?
7 For you know that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that can deliver out of your hands?
Thou knowest that I can not do wickedly: for none can deliuer me out of thine hand.
8 Your hands have formed me and made me; afterwards you did change [your mind], and strike me.
Thine handes haue made me, and fashioned mee wholy rounde about, and wilt thou destroy me?
9 Remember that you have made me [as] clay, and you do turn me again to earth.
Remember, I pray thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and wilt thou bring me into dust againe?
10 Hast you not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?
Hast thou not powred me out as milke? and turned me to cruds like cheese?
11 And you did clothe me with skin and flesh, and frame me with bones and sinews.
Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and ioyned me together with bones and sinewes.
12 And you did bestow upon me life and mercy, and your oversight has preserved my spirit.
Thou hast giuen me life, and grace: and thy visitation hath preserued my spirit.
13 Having these things in yourself, I know that you can do all things; for nothing is impossible with you.
Though thou hast hid these things in thine heart, yet I knowe that it is so with thee.
14 And if I should sin, you watch me; and you have not cleared me from iniquity.
If I haue sinned, then thou wilt streightly looke vnto me, and wilt not holde mee giltlesse of mine iniquitie.
15 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.
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.
16 For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again you have changed and are terribly destroying me;
But let it increase: hunt thou me as a lyon: returne and shew thy selfe marueilous vpon me.
17 renewing against me my torture: and you have dealt with me in great anger, and you have brought trials upon me.
Thou renuest thy plagues against me, and thou increasest thy wrath against me: changes and armies of sorowes are against me.
18 Why then did you bring me out of the womb? and why did I not die, and no eye see me,
Wherfore then hast thou brought me out of the wombe? Oh that I had perished, and that none eye had seene me!
19 and I become as if I had not been? for why was I not carried from the womb to the grave?
And that I were as I had not bene, but brought from the wombe to the graue!
20 Is not the time of my life short? suffer me to rest a little,
Are not my dayes fewe? let him cease, and leaue off from me, that I may take a litle comfort,
21 before I go whence I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess;
Before I goe and shall not returne, euen to the land of darkenesse and shadow of death:
22 to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither [can any one] see the life of mortals.
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.
