Job 10
1 My soule is cut off though I liue: I wil leaue my complaint vpon my selfe, and wil speake in the bitternesse of my soule.
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 will say vnto God, Condemne mee not: shew me, wherefore thou contendest with mee.
And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and wherefore hast thou thus judged me?
3 Thinkest thou it good to oppresse me, and to cast off the labour of thine handes, and to fauour the counsel of the wicked?
Is it good before thee if I be unrighteous? for thou hast disowned the work of thy hands, and attended to the counsel of the ungodly.
4 Hast thou carnall eyes? or doest thou see as man seeth?
Or dost thou see as a mortal sees? or wilt thou look as a man sees?
5 Are thy dayes as mans dayes? or thy yeres, as the time of man,
Or is thy life human, or thy years [the years] of a man,
6 That thou inquirest of mine iniquitie, and searchest out my sinne?
that thou hast enquired into mine iniquity, and searched out my sins?
7 Thou knowest that I can not do wickedly: for none can deliuer me out of thine hand.
For thou knowest that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that can deliver out of thy hands?
8 Thine handes haue made me, and fashioned mee wholy rounde about, and wilt thou destroy me?
Thy hands have formed me and made me; afterwards thou didst change [thy mind], and smite me.
9 Remember, I pray thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and wilt thou bring me into dust againe?
Remember that thou hast made me [as] clay, and thou dost turn me again to earth.
10 Hast thou not powred me out as milke? and turned me to cruds like cheese?
Hast thou not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?
11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and ioyned me together with bones and sinewes.
And thou didst clothe me with skin and flesh, and frame me with bones and sinews.
12 Thou hast giuen me life, and grace: and thy visitation hath preserued my spirit.
And thou didst bestow upon me life and mercy, and thy oversight has preserved my spirit.
13 Though thou hast hid these things in thine heart, yet I knowe that it is so with thee.
Having these things in thyself, I know that thou canst do all things; for nothing is impossible with thee.
14 If I haue sinned, then thou wilt streightly looke vnto me, and wilt not holde mee giltlesse of mine iniquitie.
And if I should sin, thou watchest me; and thou hast not cleared me from iniquity.
15 If I haue done wickedly, wo vnto me: if I haue done righteously, I will not lift vp mine head, being full of confusion, because I see mine affliction.
Or if I should be ungodly, woe is me: and if I should be righteous, I cannot lift myself up, for I am full of dishonour.
16 But let it increase: hunt thou me as a lyon: returne and shew thy selfe marueilous vpon me.
For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again thou hast changed and art terribly destroying me;
17 Thou renuest thy plagues against me, and thou increasest thy wrath against me: changes and armies of sorowes are against me.
renewing against me my torture: and thou hast dealt with me in great anger, and thou hast brought trials upon me.
18 Wherfore then hast thou brought me out of the wombe? Oh that I had perished, and that none eye had seene me!
Why then didst thou bring me out of the womb? and why did I not die, and no eye see me,
19 And that I were as I had not bene, but brought from the wombe to the graue!
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 dayes fewe? let him cease, and leaue off from me, that I may take a litle comfort,
Is not the time of my life short? suffer me to rest a little,
21 Before I goe and shall not returne, euen to the land of darkenesse and shadow of death:
before I go whence I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess;
22 Into a land, I say, darke as darknes it selfe, and into the shadow of death, where is none order, but the light is there as darkenesse.
to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither [can any one] see the life of mortals.
