Job 10
10
1“I hate my life,
so I will complain without holding back;
I will speak because I am so unhappy.
2I will say to God: Do not hold me guilty,
but tell me what you have against me.
3Does it make you happy to trouble me?
Don’t you care about me, the work of your hands?
Are you happy with the plans of evil people?
4Do you have human eyes
that see as we see?
5Are your days like the days of humans,
and your years like our years?
6You look for the evil I have done
and search for my sin.
7You know I am not guilty,
but no one can save me from your power.
8“Your hands shaped and made me.
Do you now turn around and destroy me?
9Remember that you molded me like a piece of clay.
Will you now turn me back into dust?
10You formed me inside my mother
like cheese formed from milk.
11You dressed me with skin and flesh;
you sewed me together with bones and muscles.
12You gave me life and showed me kindness,
and in your care you watched over my life.
13“But in your heart you hid other plans.
I know this was in your mind.
14If I sinned, you would watch me
and would not let my sin go unpunished.
15How terrible it will be for me if I am guilty!
Even if I am right, I cannot lift my head.
I am full of shame
and experience only pain.
16If I hold up my head, you hunt me like a lion
and again show your terrible power against me.
17You bring new witnesses against me
and increase your anger against me.
Your armies come against me.
18“So why did you allow me to be born?
I wish I had died before anyone saw me.
19I wish I had never lived,
but had been carried straight from birth to the grave.
20The few days of my life are almost over.
Leave me alone so I can have a moment of joy.
21Soon I will leave; I will not return
from the land of darkness and gloom,
22the land of darkest night,
from the land of gloom and confusion,
where even the light is darkness.”
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Job 10
10
1My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2I say unto God, ‘Do not condemn me, Let me know why Thou dost strive [with] me.
3Is it good for Thee that Thou dost oppress? That Thou despisest the labour of Thy hands, And on the counsel of the wicked hast shone?
4Eyes of flesh hast Thou? As man seeth — seest Thou?
5As the days of man [are] Thy days? Thy years as the days of a man?
6That Thou inquirest for mine iniquity, And for my sin seekest?
7For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Thy hand.
8Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up!
9Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back.
10Dost Thou not as milk pour me out? And as cheese curdle me?
11Skin and flesh Thou dost put on me, And with bones and sinews dost fence me.
12Life and kindness Thou hast done with me. And Thy inspection hath preserved my spirit.
13And these Thou hast laid up in Thy heart, I have known that this [is] with Thee.
14If I sinned, then Thou hast observed me, And from mine iniquity dost not acquit me,
15If I have done wickedly — woe to me, And righteously — I lift not up my head, Full of shame — then see my affliction,
16And it riseth — as a lion Thou huntest me. And Thou turnest back — Thou shewest Thyself wonderful in me.
17Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare [are] with me.
18And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.
19As I had not been, I am, From the belly to the grave I am brought,
20Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,
21Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,
22A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade — and no order, And the shining [is] as thick darkness.’
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