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.

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 will say vnto God, Condemne mee not: shew me, wherefore thou contendest with mee.

I will say to God, 'Do not merely condemn me; show me why you accuse 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 to you that you should oppress me, to despise the work of your hands while you smile on the plans of the wicked?

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

Do you have eyes of flesh? Do you see like a man sees?

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

Are your days like the days of mankind or your years like the years of people,

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

that you inquire after my iniquity and search after my sin,

7 Thou knowest that I can not do wickedly: for none can deliuer me out of thine hand.

although you know I am not guilty and there is no one who can rescue me from your hand?

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

Your hands have framed and fashioned me together round about, yet you are destroying me.

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

Call to mind, I beg you, that you have fashioned me like clay; will you bring me into dust again?

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

Have 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.

You have clothed me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews.

12 Thou hast giuen me life, and grace: and thy visitation hath preserued my spirit.

You have granted me life and covenant faithfulness; your help has guarded my spirit.

13 Though thou hast hid these things in thine heart, yet I knowe that it is so with thee.

Yet these things you hid in your heart— I know that this is what you were thinking:

14 If I haue sinned, then thou wilt streightly looke vnto me, and wilt not holde mee giltlesse of mine iniquitie.

that if I sinned, you would notice it; you would not acquit me of my 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.

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 But let it increase: hunt thou me as a lyon: returne and shew thy selfe marueilous vpon 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 renuest thy plagues against me, and thou increasest thy wrath against me: changes and armies of sorowes are against me.

You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger against me; you attack me with fresh armies.

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, 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 And that I were as I had not bene, but brought from the wombe to the graue!

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 dayes fewe? let him cease, and leaue off from me, that I may take a litle comfort,

Are not my days only a few? Stop then, let me alone, so that I may have a little rest

21 Before I goe and shall not returne, euen to the land of darkenesse and shadow of death:

before I go from where I will not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death,

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.

the land that is as dark as midnight, the land of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is like midnight.'”