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.
I am weary of my life; I will let loose within me my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2 I say unto God, 'Do not condemn me, Let me know why Thou dost strive [with] me.
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me! Show me wherefore thou contendest with 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 a pleasure to thee to oppress, And to despise the work of thy hands, And to shine upon the plans of the wicked?
4 Eyes of flesh hast Thou? As man seeth — seest Thou?
Hast thou eyes of flesh, Or seest thou as man seeth?
5 As the days of man [are] Thy days? Thy years as the days of a man?
Are thy days as the days of a man, Are thy years as the days of a mortal,
6 That Thou inquirest for mine iniquity, And for my sin seekest?
That thou seekest after my iniquity, And searchest after my sin,
7 For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Thy hand.
Though thou knowest that I am not guilty, And that none can deliver from thy hand?
8 Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up!
Have thy hands completely fashioned and made me In every part, that thou mightst destroy me?
9 Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back.
O remember that thou hast moulded me as clay! And wilt thou bring me again to dust?
10 Dost Thou not as milk pour me out? And as cheese curdle me?
Thou didst pour me out as milk, And curdle me as cheese;
11 Skin and flesh Thou dost put on me, And with bones and sinews dost fence me.
With skin and flesh didst thou clothe me, And strengthen me with bones and sinews;
12 Life and kindness Thou hast done with me. And Thy inspection hath preserved my spirit.
Thou didst grant me life and favor, And thy protection preserved my breath:
13 And these Thou hast laid up in Thy heart, I have known that this [is] with Thee.
Yet these things thou didst lay up in thy heart! I know that this was in thy mind.
14 If I sinned, then Thou hast observed me, And from mine iniquity dost not acquit me,
If I sin, then thou markest me, And wilt not acquit me of mine 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,
If I am wicked, —then woe unto me! Yet if righteous, I dare not lift up my head; I am full of confusion, beholding my affliction.
16 And it riseth — as a lion Thou huntest me. And Thou turnest back — Thou shewest Thyself wonderful in me.
If I lift it up, like a lion thou huntest me, And again showest thyself terrible unto me.
17 Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare [are] with me.
Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, And increasest thine anger toward me; New hosts continually rise up against me.
18 And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.
Why then didst thou bring me forth from the womb? I should have perished, and no eye had seen me;
19 As I had not been, I am, From the belly to the grave I am brought,
I should be as though I had not been; I should have been borne from the womb to the grave.
20 Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,
Are not my days few? O spare then, And let me alone, that I may be at ease a little while,
21 Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,
Before I go— whence I shall not return—To the land of darkness and death-shade,
22 A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade — and no order, And the shining [is] as thick darkness.'
The land of darkness like the blackness of death-shade, Where is no order, and where the light is as darkness.
