Job 10
1 “My soul has been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I 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 say to God, Do not condemn me, Let me know why You strive [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 for You that You oppress? That You despise the labor 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 Do you have eyes of flesh? Do You see 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? Your years as the days of a man?
Or is thy life human, or thy years [the years] of a man,
6 That You inquire for my iniquity, And seek for my sin?
that thou hast enquired into mine iniquity, and searched out my sins?
7 For You know that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from 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 taken pains about me, And they make me together all around, And You swallow me up!
Thy hands have formed me and made me; afterwards thou didst change [thy mind], and smite me.
9 Please remember That You have made me as clay, And You bring me back to dust.
Remember that thou hast made me [as] clay, and thou dost turn me again to earth.
10 Do You not pour me out as milk? And curdle me as cheese?
Hast thou not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?
11 Skin and flesh You put on me, And fence me with bones and sinews.
And thou didst clothe me with skin and flesh, and frame me with bones and sinews.
12 Life and kindness You have done with me. And Your inspection has preserved my spirit.
And thou didst bestow upon me life and mercy, and thy oversight has preserved my spirit.
13 And these You have laid up in Your heart, I have known 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 sinned, then You have observed me, And do 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 have done wickedly—woe to me, And righteously—I do not lift up my head, Full of shame—then see 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 And it rises—as a lion You hunt me. And You turn back—You show Yourself wonderful in 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 multiply Your anger with me, Changes and warfare [are] with me.
renewing against me my torture: and thou hast dealt with me in great anger, and thou hast brought trials upon me.
18 And why from the womb Have You brought me forth? I expire, and the eye does not see me.
Why then didst thou bring me out of the womb? and why did I not die, and no eye see me,
19 I am as [if] I had not been, I am brought from the belly 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 my days not few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,
Is not the time of my life short? suffer me to rest a little,
21 Before I go, and do not return, To a land of darkness and death-shade,
before I go whence I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess;
22 A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade—and no order, And the shining [is] as thick darkness.”
to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither [can any one] see the life of mortals.
