Iyoḇ (Job) 10
10
1“My being has grown weary of life. I let loose my complaint, I speak in the bitterness of my being.
2I say to Eloah, ‘Do not declare me wrong, show me why You strive with me.
3Is it good to You that You should crush, that You should despise the work of Your hands, and shine on the counsel of the wrong?
4Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?
5Are Your days like the days of a mortal man? Are Your years like the days of a mighty man,
6that You should seek for my crookedness and search out my sin?
7For You know that I am not wrong, and there is no one to deliver from Your hand.
8Your hands have made me and shaped me, together all around, yet You destroy me.
9Remember, please, that You have made me like clay. And would You turn me into dust again?
10Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?
11Skin and flesh you put on me, and wove me with bones and sinews.
12Life and loving-commitment You have bestowed on me, and Your visitation has preserved my spirit.
13And these You have laid up in Your heart, I know that this was with You:
14If I sin, then You watch me, and let no crookedness of mine go unpunished.
15If I am wrong, woe to me! And if I am righteous, I would not lift up my head – filled with shame and seeing my grief!
16If I lift it up high, you hunt me as a lion, and again You would show Yourself marvellous against me.
17You renew Your witnesses against me, and increase Your vexation toward me; changes and a host are with me.
18So why have You brought me forth from the womb? Oh, that I had perished and no eye had seen me!
19I should have been as though I had not been – brought from the womb to the burial-site.
20Are not my days few? Then cease! Leave me alone, so that I brighten up a little,
21Before I go, and not return, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,
22a land as dark as darkness itself, as the shadow of death, without any order, whose light is as darkness.”
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Job 10
10
Job: I Would Plead with God
1“My #1 Kin. 19:4; Job 7:16; Jon. 4:3soul loathes my life;
I will give free course to my complaint,
#Job 7:11I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me;
Show me why You contend with me.
3Does it seem good to You that You should oppress,
That You should despise the work of Your hands,
And smile on the counsel of the wicked?
4Do You have eyes of flesh?
Or #(1 Sam. 16:7; Job 28:24; 34:21)do You see as man sees?
5Are Your days like the days of a mortal man?
Are Your years like the days of a mighty man,
6That You should seek for my iniquity
And search out my sin,
7Although You know that I am not wicked,
And there is no one who can deliver from Your hand?
8‘Your#Job 10:3; Ps. 119:73 hands have made me and fashioned me,
An intricate unity;
Yet You would #(Job 9:22)destroy me.
9Remember, I pray, #Gen. 2:7; Job 33:6that You have made me like clay.
And will You turn me into dust again?
10#(Ps. 139:14–16)Did You not pour me out like milk,
And curdle me like cheese,
11Clothe me with skin and flesh,
And knit me together with bones and sinews?
12You have granted me life and favor,
And Your care has preserved my spirit.
13‘And these things You have hidden in Your heart;
I know that this was with You:
14If I sin, then #Job 7:20; Ps. 139:1You mark me,
And will not acquit me of my iniquity.
15If I am wicked, #Job 10:7; Is. 3:11woe to me;
#(Job 9:12, 15)Even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head.
I am full of disgrace;
#Ps. 25:18See my misery!
16If my head is exalted,
#Is. 38:13; Lam. 3:10; Hos. 13:7You hunt me like a fierce lion,
And again You show Yourself awesome against me.
17You renew Your witnesses against me,
And increase Your indignation toward me;
Changes and war are ever with me.
18‘Why#Job 3:11–13 then have You brought me out of the womb?
Oh, that I had perished and no eye had seen me!
19I would have been as though I had not been.
I would have been carried from the womb to the grave.
20#Ps. 39:5Are not my days few?
Cease! #Job 7:16, 19Leave me alone, that I may take a little comfort,
21Before I go to the place from which I shall not return,
#Ps. 88:12To the land of darkness #Ps. 23:4and the shadow of death,
22A land as dark as darkness itself,
As the shadow of death, without any order,
Where even the light is like darkness.’ ”
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