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 let go my speech against myself, 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 to God: Do not condemn me: tell me why thou judgest me so.

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 seem good to thee that thou shouldst calumniate me, and oppress me, the work of thy own hands, and help the counsel of the wicked?

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

Hast thou eyes of flesh: or, shalt thou see 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 man, and are thy years as the times of men:

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

That thou shouldst inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

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

And shouldst know that I have done no wicked thing, whereas there is no man that can deliver 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 made me, and fashioned me wholly round about, and dost thou thus cast me down headlong on a sudden?

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 the clay, and thou wilt bring me into dust again.

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

Hast thou not milked me 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: thou hast put 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 mercy, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.

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

Although thou conceal these things in thy heart, yet I know that thou rememberest all things.

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

If I have sinned and thou hast spared me for an hour: why dost thou not suffer me to be clean from my 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,

And if I be wicked, woe unto me: and if just, I shall not lift up my head, being filled with affliction and misery.

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

And for pride thou wilt take me as a lioness, and returning thou tormentest me wonderfully.

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

Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and multipliest thy wrath upon me, and pains war against me.

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

Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb: O that I had been consumed that eye might not see me!

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

I should have been as if I had not 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,

Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? suffer me, therefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little:

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

Before I go, and return no more, to a land that is dark and covered with the mist 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 misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and no order, but everlasting horror dwelleth.