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.
My soul is weary of my life: I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2 I say to God, Do not condemn me, Let me know why You strive [with] me.
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou strivest with 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?
Doth it please thee to oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
4 Do you have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?
Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
5 [Are] Your days as the days of man? Your years as the days of a man?
Are thy days as the days of a mortal? are thy years as a man's days,
6 That You inquire for my iniquity, And seek for my sin?
That thou searchest after mine iniquity, and inquirest into my sin;
7 For You know that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Your hand.
Since thou knowest that I am not wicked, and that there is none that delivereth out of thy hand?
8 Your hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together all around, And You swallow me up!
Thy hands have bound me together and made me as one, round about; yet dost thou swallow me up!
9 Please remember That You have made me as clay, And You bring me back to dust.
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as clay, and wilt bring me into dust again.
10 Do You not pour me out as milk? And curdle me as cheese?
Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
11 Skin and flesh You put on me, And fence me with bones and sinews.
Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews;
12 Life and kindness You have done with me. And Your inspection has preserved my spirit.
Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy care hath preserved my spirit;
13 And these You have laid up in Your heart, I have known that this [is] with You.
And these things didst thou hide in thy heart; I know that this was with thee.
14 If I sinned, then You have observed me, And do not acquit me from my iniquity,
If I sinned, thou wouldest mark me, and thou wouldest not acquit me of mine 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,
If I were wicked, woe unto me! and righteous, I will not lift up my head, being [so] full of shame, and beholding mine affliction; —
16 And it rises—as a lion You hunt me. And You turn back—You show Yourself wonderful in me.
And it increaseth: thou huntest me as a fierce lion; and ever again thou shewest thy marvellous power upon me.
17 You renew Your witnesses against me, and multiply Your anger with me, Changes and warfare [are] with me.
Thou renewest thy witnesses before me and increasest thy displeasure against me; successions [of evil] and a time of toil are with me.
18 And why from the womb Have You brought me forth? I expire, and the eye does not see me.
And wherefore didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? I had expired, and no eye had seen me.
19 I am as [if] I had not been, I am brought from the belly to the grave,
I should be as though I had not been; I should have been 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,
Are not my days few? cease then and let me alone, that I may revive a little,
21 Before I go, and do not return, To a land of darkness and death-shade,
Before I go, and never to return, — to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
22 A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade—and no order, And the shining [is] as thick darkness.”
A land of gloom, as darkness itself; of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as thick darkness.
