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 therefore have you 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 you if I be unrighteous? for you have disowned the work of your hands, and attended to the counsel of the ungodly.

4 Hast thou carnall eyes? or doest thou see as man seeth?

Or do you see as a mortal sees? or will you look as a man sees?

5 Are thy dayes as mans dayes? or thy yeres, as the time of man,

Or is your life human, or your years [the years] of a man,

6 That thou inquirest of mine iniquitie, and searchest out my sinne?

that you have 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 you know that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that can deliver out of your hands?

8 Thine handes haue made me, and fashioned mee wholy rounde about, and wilt thou destroy me?

Your hands have formed me and made me; afterwards you did change [your mind], and strike me.

9 Remember, I pray thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and wilt thou bring me into dust againe?

Remember that you have made me [as] clay, and you do turn me again to earth.

10 Hast thou not powred me out as milke? and turned me to cruds like cheese?

Hast you 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 you did 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 you did bestow upon me life and mercy, and your 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 yourself, I know that you can do all things; for nothing is impossible with you.

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, you watch me; and you have 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 can’t lift myself up, for I am full of dishonor.

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 you have changed and are 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 you have dealt with me in great anger, and you have 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 did you 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.