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.
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 to God, Do not condemn me; show me why thou contendest with me.
And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and therefore have you thus judged me?
3 Is it good to thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon 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 eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
Or do you see as a mortal sees? or will you look as a man sees?
5 Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man’s days,
Or is your life human, or your years [the years] of a man,
6 That thou enquirest after my iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
that you have enquired into mine iniquity, and searched out my sins?
7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thy hand.
For you know that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that can deliver out of your hands?
8 Thy hands have made me and fashioned me in all my parts; yet thou dost destroy me.
Your hands have formed me and made me; afterwards you did change [your mind], and strike me.
9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Remember that you have made me [as] clay, and you do turn me again to earth.
10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me 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 hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
And you did clothe me with skin and flesh, and frame me with bones and sinews.
12 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy care hath preserved my spirit.
And you did bestow upon me life and mercy, and your oversight has preserved my spirit.
13 And these things hast thou hid in thy heart: I know that this is with thee.
Having these things in yourself, I know that you can do all things; for nothing is impossible with you.
14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from my iniquity.
And if I should sin, you watch me; and you have not cleared me from iniquity.
15 If I be wicked, woe to me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou my 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 dishonour.
16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me.
For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again you have changed and are terribly destroying me;
17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thy indignation upon me; changes and war 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 Why then hast thou brought me forth from the womb? O that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
Why then did you bring me out of the womb? and why did I not die, and no eye see me,
19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
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 days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
Is not the time of my life short? suffer me to rest a little,
21 Before I go to the place from which I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
before I go whence I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess;
22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither [can any one] see the life of mortals.
