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 give free expression to 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 to God, 'Do not merely condemn me; show me why you accuse 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 to you that you should oppress me, to despise the work of your hands while you smile on the plans of the wicked?
4 Eyes of flesh hast Thou? As man seeth — seest Thou?
Do you have eyes of flesh? Do you see like a man sees?
5 As the days of man [are] Thy days? Thy years as the days of a man?
Are your days like the days of mankind or your years like the years of people,
6 That Thou inquirest for mine iniquity, And for my sin seekest?
that you inquire after my iniquity and search after my sin,
7 For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Thy hand.
although you know I am not guilty and there is no one who can rescue me from your hand?
8 Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up!
Your hands have framed and fashioned me together round about, yet you are destroying me.
9 Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back.
Call to mind, I beg you, that you have fashioned me like clay; will you bring me into dust again?
10 Dost Thou not as milk pour me out? And as cheese curdle me?
Have 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.
You have clothed me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews.
12 Life and kindness Thou hast done with me. And Thy inspection hath preserved my spirit.
You have granted me life and covenant faithfulness; your help has guarded my spirit.
13 And these Thou hast laid up in Thy heart, I have known that this [is] with Thee.
Yet these things you hid in your heart— I know that this is what you were thinking:
14 If I sinned, then Thou hast observed me, And from mine iniquity dost not acquit me,
that if I sinned, you would notice it; you would not acquit me of my 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 have acted wickedly, woe to me; and even if I acted righteously, I could not lift up my head, since I am filled with disgrace— see my affliction!
16 And it riseth — as a lion Thou huntest me. And Thou turnest back — Thou shewest Thyself wonderful in me.
If my head were lifted up, you would stalk me like a lion; and again you would show yourself with marvellous acts of power against me.
17 Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare [are] with me.
You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger against me; you attack me with fresh armies.
18 And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.
Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up my spirit and that no eye had ever seen me.
19 As I had not been, I am, From the belly to the grave I am brought,
I would have been as though I had never existed; I would have been 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,
Are not my days only a few? Stop then, let me alone, so that I may have a little rest
21 Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,
before I go from where I will not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death,
22 A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade — and no order, And the shining [is] as thick darkness.'
the land that is as dark as midnight, the land of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is like midnight.'”
