Job 10
10
1I am disgusted with my life. # Jb 7:16; 9:21; Ps 95:10; 119:158; 139:21; Ezk 6:9; 20:43; 36:31
I will express my complaint
and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2I will say to God:
“Do not declare me guilty!
Let me know why You prosecute me.
3Is it good for You to oppress,
to reject the work of Your hands, # Ps 128:2
and favor # Lit shine on the plans of the wicked? # Ps 1:1; Jb 21:16; 22:18
4Do You have eyes of flesh,
or do You see as a human sees?
5Are Your days like those of a human,
or Your years like those of a man, # Jb 36:26; Ps 90:4; 2Pt 3:8
6that You look for my wrongdoing # Jb 13:23,26; 14:17; 22:5
and search for my sin,
7even though You know that I am not wicked
and that there is no one who can deliver from Your hand? # Dt 32:39; Is 43:13
8“Your hands shaped me and formed me. # Gn 2:7,8,19; Ps 34:15; 94:9; Is 29:16; 43:1,7,21; 44:2,21,24; 45:9,11; 49:5; 64:8; Jr 1:5; 18:6; Zch 12:1
Will You now turn and destroy me?
9Please remember that You formed me like clay.
Will You now return me to dust? # Gn 2:7; Jb 4:19; 34:15
10Did You not pour me out like milk
and curdle me like cheese?
11You clothed me with skin and flesh,
and wove me together with bones and tendons. # Ps 139:13
12You gave me life and faithful love,
and Your care has guarded my life.
13“Yet You concealed these thoughts in Your heart;
I know that this was Your hidden plan: # Lit was with You
14if I sin, You would notice, # Lit notice me
and would not acquit me of my wrongdoing. # Ex 34:7; Jb 7:21; Am 3:2
15If I am wicked, woe to me!
And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head.
I am filled with shame # Hab 2:16
and aware of my affliction. # Jb 9:15; Ps 25:18; Is 3:11
16If I am proud, # Lit If he lifts up You hunt me like a lion
and again display Your miraculous power against me. # Jb 5:9; Is 38:13; Lm 3:10
17You produce new witnesses # Or You bring fresh troops against me
and multiply Your anger toward me.
Hardships assault me, wave after wave. # Lit Changes and a host are with me
18“Why did You bring me out of the womb? # Jb 1:21; 10:18-19; Jr 20:17-18
I should have died and never been seen.
19I wish # Lit As if I had never existed
but had been carried from the womb to the grave. # Jb 3: 22; 5:26; 17:1
20Are my days not few? Stop it! # Alt Hb tradition reads Will He not leave my few days alone?
Leave me alone, so that I can smile a little
21before I go to a land of darkness and gloom, # Jb 3:5;12:22; 28:3
never to return.
22It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness,
gloomy and chaotic,
where even the light is like # Lit chaotic, and shines as the darkness.”
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Job 10
10
Job Bemoans His Condition
1My soul is weary of my life;
I will leave my complaint upon myself;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me;
show me wherefore thou contendest with me.
3 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress,
that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands,
and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
4Hast thou eyes of flesh?
Or seest thou as man seeth?
5 Are thy days as the days of man?
Are thy years as man's days,
6that thou inquirest after mine iniquity,
and searchest after my sin?
7Thou knowest that I am not wicked;
and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
8Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about;
yet thou dost destroy me.
9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay;
and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
10Hast thou not poured me out as milk,
and curdled me like cheese?
11Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh,
and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
12Thou hast granted me life and favor,
and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
13And these things hast thou hid in thine heart:
I know that this is with thee.
14If I sin, then thou markest me,
and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
15If 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 thou mine affliction;
16for it increaseth.
Thou huntest me as a fierce lion:
and again thou showest thyself marvelous upon me.
17Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me;
changes and war are against me.
18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb?
Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
19I should have been as though I had not been;
I should have been 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,
21before I go whence I shall not return,
even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
22a land of darkness, as darkness itself;
and of the shadow of death, without any order,
and where the light is as darkness.
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