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 soul has been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.

2 And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and therefore have you thus judged me?

I say to God, Do not condemn me, Let me know why You strive [with] me.

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.

Is it good for You that You oppress? That You despise the labor of Your hands, And shine on the counsel of the wicked?

4 Or do you see as a mortal sees? or will you look as a man sees?

Do you have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?

5 Or is your life human, or your years [the years] of a man,

[Are] Your days as the days of man? Your years as the days of a man?

6 that you have enquired into mine iniquity, and searched out my sins?

That You inquire for my iniquity, And seek for my sin?

7 For you know that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that can deliver out of your hands?

For You know that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Your hand.

8 Your hands have formed me and made me; afterwards you did change [your mind], and strike me.

Your hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together all around, And You swallow me up!

9 Remember that you have made me [as] clay, and you do turn me again to earth.

Please remember That You have made me as clay, And You bring me back to dust.

10 Hast you not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?

Do You not pour me out as milk? And curdle me as cheese?

11 And you did clothe me with skin and flesh, and frame me with bones and sinews.

Skin and flesh You put on me, And fence me with bones and sinews.

12 And you did bestow upon me life and mercy, and your oversight has preserved my spirit.

Life and kindness You have done with me. And Your inspection has preserved my spirit.

13 Having these things in yourself, I know that you can do all things; for nothing is impossible with you.

And these You have laid up in Your heart, I have known that this [is] with You.

14 And if I should sin, you watch me; and you have not cleared me from iniquity.

If I sinned, then You have observed me, And do not acquit me from my iniquity,

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 have done wickedly—woe to me, And righteously—I do not lift up my head, Full of shame—then see my affliction,

16 For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again you have changed and are terribly destroying me;

And it rises—as a lion You hunt me. And You turn back—You show Yourself wonderful in me.

17 renewing against me my torture: and you have dealt with me in great anger, and you have brought trials upon me.

You renew Your witnesses against me, and multiply Your anger with me, Changes and warfare [are] with me.

18 Why then did you bring me out of the womb? and why did I not die, and no eye see me,

And why from the womb Have You brought me forth? I expire, and the eye does not see me.

19 and I become as if I had not been? for why was I not carried from the womb to the grave?

I am as [if] I had not been, I am brought from the belly to the grave,

20 Is not the time of my life short? suffer me to rest a little,

Are my days not few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,

21 before I go whence I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess;

Before I go, and do not return, To a land of darkness and death-shade,

22 to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither [can any one] see the life of mortals.

A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade—and no order, And the shining [is] as thick darkness.”