Job 10
1 My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Weary in my soul, I will pour my words with groans upon him: I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul.
2 I say unto God, 'Do not condemn me, Let me know why Thou dost strive [with] me.
And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and therefore have you thus judged me?
3 Is it good for Thee that Thou dost oppress? That Thou despisest the labour of Thy hands, And on the counsel of the wicked hast shone?
Is it good before you if I be unrighteous? for you have disowned the work of your hands, and attended to the counsel of the ungodly.
4 Eyes of flesh hast Thou? As man seeth — seest Thou?
Or do you see as a mortal sees? or will you look as a man sees?
5 As the days of man [are] Thy days? Thy years as the days of a man?
Or is your life human, or your years [the years] of a man,
6 That Thou inquirest for mine iniquity, And for my sin seekest?
that you have enquired into mine iniquity, and searched out my sins?
7 For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Thy hand.
For you know that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that can deliver out of your hands?
8 Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up!
Your hands have formed me and made me; afterwards you did change [your mind], and strike me.
9 Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back.
Remember that you have made me [as] clay, and you do turn me again to earth.
10 Dost Thou not as milk pour me out? And as cheese curdle me?
Hast you not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?
11 Skin and flesh Thou dost put on me, And with bones and sinews dost fence me.
And you did clothe me with skin and flesh, and frame me with bones and sinews.
12 Life and kindness Thou hast done with me. And Thy inspection hath preserved my spirit.
And you did bestow upon me life and mercy, and your oversight has preserved my spirit.
13 And these Thou hast laid up in Thy heart, I have known that this [is] with Thee.
Having these things in yourself, I know that you can do all things; for nothing is impossible with you.
14 If I sinned, then Thou hast observed me, And from mine iniquity dost not acquit me,
And if I should sin, you watch me; and you have not cleared me from iniquity.
15 If I have done wickedly — woe to me, And righteously — I lift not up my head, Full of shame — then see my affliction,
Or if I should be ungodly, woe is me: and if I should be righteous, I can’t lift myself up, for I am full of dishonour.
16 And it riseth — as a lion Thou huntest me. And Thou turnest back — Thou shewest Thyself wonderful in me.
For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again you have changed and are terribly destroying me;
17 Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare [are] with me.
renewing against me my torture: and you have dealt with me in great anger, and you have brought trials upon me.
18 And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.
Why then did you bring me out of the womb? and why did I not die, and no eye see me,
19 As I had not been, I am, From the belly to the grave I am brought,
and I become as if I had not been? for why was I not carried from the womb to the grave?
20 Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,
Is not the time of my life short? suffer me to rest a little,
21 Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,
before I go whence I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess;
22 A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade — and no order, And the shining [is] as thick darkness.'
to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither [can any one] see the life of mortals.
