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 therefore have you 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 you if I be unrighteous? for you have disowned the work of your hands, and attended to the counsel of the ungodly.

4 Do you have eyes of flesh? Do You see 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? Your years as the days of a man?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hast you 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 you did 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 you did bestow upon me life and mercy, and your 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 yourself, I know that you can do all things; for nothing is impossible with you.

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

And if I should sin, you watch me; and you have 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 can’t 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 you have changed and are 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 you have dealt with me in great anger, and you have 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 did you 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.