Job 10
1 “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].
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 will say to God, ‘Do not say that I must be punished; instead, tell me what wrong you are saying that I have done.
I will say unto God: Do not condemn me; make me know wherefore Thou contendest with me.
3 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?
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 understand things the way that we humans do?
Hast Thou eyes of flesh? or seest Thou as man seeth?
5 (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]
Are Thy days as the days of man, or Thy years as a man's days,
6 So, why do you [RHQ] continue to search for my faults? Why do you hunt for my sins?
That Thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin,
7 You know that I am not guilty, and that no one can rescue me from your power [MTY].
Although Thou knowest that I shall not be condemned; and there is none that can deliver out of Thy hand?
8 “'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.
Thy hands have framed me and fashioned me together round about; yet Thou dost destroy me!
9 Do not forget that you made me from [a piece of] clay; are you going to cause me to become dirt again [RHQ]?
Remember, I beseech Thee, that Thou hast fashioned me as clay; and wilt Thou bring me into dust again?
10 You certainly [RHQ] directed/controlled it when I was conceived, and you formed me inside my mother’s womb [MET].
Hast Thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
11 You fastened my bones together with sinews, and [then] you covered them with flesh inside my skin.
Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
12 You have caused me to be alive, and you have faithfully loved me, and you have carefully (preserved me/kept me alive).
Thou hast granted me life and favour, and Thy providence hath preserved my spirit.
13 “'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].
Yet these things Thou didst hide in Thy heart; I know that this is with Thee;
14 You were watching to see if I would sin, in order that [if I sinned, ] you would refuse to forgive me.
If I sin, then Thou markest me, and Thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
15 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.
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 if I am proud, you hunt me like [SIM] a lion hunts [for some animal to kill], and you act powerfully to injure me.
And if it exalt itself, Thou huntest me as a lion; and again Thou showest Thyself marvellous upon me.
17 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.
Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, and increasest Thine indignation upon me; host succeeding host against me.
18 “'God, why did you allow me to be born? I wish/desire that I had died before anyone [SYN] saw 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 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.
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
20 [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
Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
21 before I go to the place from which I will never return, where it is always gloomy and very dark [DOU],
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
22 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).’”
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.
