Job 10
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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
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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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