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; make me know wherefore Thou contendest 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?
Is it good unto Thee that Thou shouldest 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 man, or Thy years as a man's days,
6 That You inquire for my iniquity, And seek for my sin?
That Thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin,
7 For You know that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Your hand.
Although Thou knowest that I shall not be condemned; and there is none 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 framed me and fashioned me together round about; yet Thou dost destroy me!
9 Please remember That You have made me as clay, And You bring me back to dust.
Remember, I beseech Thee, that Thou hast fashioned me as clay; and wilt Thou 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 providence hath preserved my spirit.
13 And these You have laid up in Your heart, I have known that this [is] with You.
Yet these things Thou didst hide in Thy heart; I know that this is with Thee;
14 If I sinned, then You have observed me, And do not acquit me from my iniquity,
If I sin, then Thou markest me, and Thou wilt not acquit me from 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 be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head — being filled with ignominy and looking upon mine affliction.
16 And it rises—as a lion You hunt me. And You turn back—You show Yourself wonderful in me.
And if it exalt itself, Thou huntest me as a lion; and again Thou showest Thyself marvellous 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 against me, and increasest Thine indignation upon me; host succeeding host against me.
18 And why from the womb Have You brought me forth? I expire, and the eye does not see me.
Wherefore then hast Thou brought me forth out of the womb? Would that I had perished, 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 have been 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 take comfort 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, even to the land of darkness and of 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 thick darkness, as darkness itself; a land of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
