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.
“I am tired of living. And I will not be silent and stop saying what I am complaining about. Instead, being very unhappy, I will speak [IDM].
2 I say to God, Do not condemn me, Let me know why You strive [with] me.
I will say to God, ‘Do not say that I must be punished; instead, tell me what wrong you are saying that I have done.
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?
Does it seem to be good for you to oppress me, to abandon me, whom you created, and instead, to help wicked people to do the things that they plan to do?
4 Do you have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?
Do you understand things the way that we humans do?
5 [Are] Your days as the days of man? Your years as the days of a man?
(Do you live for only a few years, like we do?/You certainly do not live for only a few years, like we do.) [RHQ]
6 That You inquire for my iniquity, And seek for my sin?
So, why do you [RHQ] continue to search for my faults? Why do you hunt for my sins?
7 For You know that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Your hand.
You know that I am not guilty, and that no one can rescue me from your power [MTY].
8 Your hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together all around, And You swallow me up!
“'With your hands you created me and shaped/formed my body; but now you are [deciding that you should not have done that, and you are] destroying me.
9 Please remember That You have made me as clay, And You bring me back to dust.
Do not forget that you made me from [a piece of] clay; are you going to cause me to become dirt again [RHQ]?
10 Do You not pour me out as milk? And curdle me as cheese?
You certainly [RHQ] directed/controlled it when I was conceived, and you formed me inside my mother’s womb [MET].
11 Skin and flesh You put on me, And fence me with bones and sinews.
You fastened my bones together with sinews, and [then] you covered them with flesh inside my skin.
12 Life and kindness You have done with me. And Your inspection has preserved my spirit.
You have caused me to be alive, and you have faithfully loved me, and you have carefully (preserved me/kept me alive).
13 And these You have laid up in Your heart, I have known that this [is] with You.
“'But you (kept secret/did not reveal) what [you were planning to do to me]; I am certain that you were planning [to do] these [things to me].
14 If I sinned, then You have observed me, And do not acquit me from my iniquity,
You were watching to see if I would sin, in order that [if I sinned, ] you would refuse to forgive me.
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 am a wicked man, I hope/wish that terrible things will happen to me. But even if I am righteous, I still must bow my head [and feel ashamed], because I am very disgraced and feel miserable.
16 And it rises—as a lion You hunt me. And You turn back—You show Yourself wonderful in me.
And if I am proud, you hunt me like [SIM] a lion hunts [for some animal to kill], and you act powerfully to injure me.
17 You renew Your witnesses against me, and multiply Your anger with me, Changes and warfare [are] with me.
You constantly find more witnesses [to testify that I have done what is wrong], and you continually become more angry/perturbed with me. [It is as though] you are always bringing new troops to attack me.
18 And why from the womb Have You brought me forth? I expire, and the eye does not see me.
“'God, why did you allow me to be born? I wish/desire that I had died before anyone [SYN] saw me.
19 I am as [if] I had not been, I am brought from the belly to the grave,
[I consider that] it would have been better if I had been carried directly from my mother’s womb to the grave than for me to live.
20 Are my days not few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,
[I think that] [RHQ] there are only a few days for me to remain alive; so (allow me to be alone/stop attacking me), in order that I may be a little cheerful
21 Before I go, and do not return, To a land of darkness and death-shade,
before I go to the place from which I will never return, where it is always gloomy and very dark [DOU],
22 A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade—and no order, And the shining [is] as thick darkness.”
a place of darkness and dark shadows, where [everything] is confused/disordered, where [even a small amount of] light there is like darkness (OR, there is no light, only darkness).’”
