< Job 10 >
1 to tire soul my in/on/with life my to leave: release upon me complaint my to speak: speak in/on/with bitter soul my
“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 to say to(wards) god not be wicked me to know me upon what? to contend 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 pleasant to/for you for to oppress for to reject toil palm your and upon counsel wicked to shine
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 eye flesh to/for you if: surely no like/as to see: see human to see: see
Do you understand things the way that we humans do?
5 like/as day human day your if: surely no year your like/as day: year great 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 for to seek to/for iniquity: crime my and to/for sin my to seek
So, why do you [RHQ] continue to search for my faults? Why do you hunt for my sins?
7 upon knowledge your for not be wicked and nothing from hand: power your to rescue
You know that I am not guilty, and that no one can rescue me from your power [MTY].
8 hand your to shape me and to make me unitedness around and to swallow up me
“'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 to remember please for like/as clay to make me and to(wards) dust to return: return me
Do not forget that you made me from [a piece of] clay; are you going to cause me to become dirt again [RHQ]?
10 not like/as milk to pour me and like/as cheese to congeal me
You certainly [RHQ] directed/controlled it when I was conceived, and you formed me inside my mother’s womb [MET].
11 skin and flesh to clothe me and in/on/with bone and sinew to weave me
You fastened my bones together with sinews, and [then] you covered them with flesh inside my skin.
12 life and kindness to make: offer with me me and punishment your to keep: guard spirit my
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 to treasure in/on/with heart your to know for this 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 to sin and to keep: look at me and from iniquity: crime my not to clear me
You were watching to see if I would sin, in order that [if I sinned, ] you would refuse to forgive me.
15 if be wicked woe! to/for me and to justify not to lift: kindness head my sated dishonor and to see affliction my
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 to rise up like/as lion to hunt me and to return: again to wonder in/on/with 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 to renew witness your before me and to multiply vexation your with me me change and army 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 to/for what? from womb to come out: produce me to die and eye not to see: see me
“'God, why did you allow me to be born? I wish/desire that I had died before anyone [SYN] saw me.
19 like/as as which not to be to be from belly: womb to/for grave to conduct
[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 not little day my (and to cease and to set: put *Q(K)*) from me and be cheerful 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 in/on/with before to go: went and not to return: return to(wards) land: country/planet darkness and shadow
before I go to the place from which I will never return, where it is always gloomy and very dark [DOU],
22 land: country/planet darkness like darkness shadow and not order and to shine like 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).’”