Job 10
1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
“My soul has been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; show me wherefore you contend with me.
I say to God, Do not condemn me, Let me know why You strive [with] me.
3 Is it good unto you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
Is it good for You that You oppress? That You despise the labor of Your hands, And shine on the counsel of the wicked?
4 Have you eyes of flesh? or see you as man sees?
Do you have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?
5 Are your days as the days of man? are your years as man's days,
[Are] Your days as the days of man? Your years as the days of a man?
6 That you enquire after mine iniquity, and search after my sin?
That You inquire for my iniquity, And seek for my sin?
7 You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of your hand.
For You know that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Your hand.
8 your hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet you do destroy me.
Your hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together all around, And You swallow me up!
9 Remember, I plead to you, that you have made me as the clay; and will you bring me into dust again?
Please remember That You have made me as clay, And You bring me back to dust.
10 Have you not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
Do You not pour me out as milk? And curdle me as cheese?
11 You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and have fenced me with bones and sinews.
Skin and flesh You put on me, And fence me with bones and sinews.
12 You have granted me life and favour, and your visitation has preserved my spirit.
Life and kindness You have done with me. And Your inspection has preserved my spirit.
13 And these things have you hid in your heart: I know that this is with you.
And these You have laid up in Your heart, I have known that this [is] with You.
14 If I sin, then you mark me, and you will not acquit me from mine iniquity.
If I sinned, then You have observed me, And do not acquit me from my iniquity,
15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see you mine affliction;
If I have done wickedly—woe to me, And righteously—I do not lift up my head, Full of shame—then see my affliction,
16 For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion: and again you show yourself marvellous upon me.
And it rises—as a lion You hunt me. And You turn back—You show Yourself wonderful in me.
17 You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
You renew Your witnesses against me, and multiply Your anger with me, Changes and warfare [are] with me.
18 Wherefore then have you brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me!
And why from the womb Have You brought me forth? I expire, and the eye does not see me.
19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
I am as [if] I had not been, I am brought from the belly to the grave,
20 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
Are my days not few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,
21 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
Before I go, and do not return, To a land of darkness and death-shade,
22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade—and no order, And the shining [is] as thick darkness.”
