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10:1  “My soul is loathed by my life; I will abandon all restraint in myself to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
10:2  I will say to God, ‘Do not account me as wicked; Let me know why You contend with me.
10:3  Is it good to You that You oppress, That You reject the labor of Your hands, And cause the counsel of the wicked to shine forth?
10:4  Have You eyes of flesh? Or do You see as a mortal man sees?
10:5  Are Your days as the days of a mortal man, Or Your years as man’s years,
10:6  That You should seek for my guilt And search after my sin?
10:7  According to Your knowledge I am indeed not wicked, Yet there is no deliverer from Your hand.
10:8  ‘Your hands fashioned and made me altogether, And would You swallow me up?
10:9  Remember now, that You have made me as clay; And would You turn me into dust again?
10:10  Did You not pour me out like milk And curdle me like cheese,
10:11  Clothe me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews?
10:12  You have made alongside me life and lovingkindness; And Your care has kept my spirit.
10:13  Yet these things You have concealed in Your heart; I know that this is within You:
10:14  If I sin, then You would take note of me And would not acquit me of my guilt.
10:15  If I am wicked, woe to me! And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head. I am sated with disgrace—so see my misery!
10:16  Should my head be set on high, You would hunt me like a lion; And again You would show Your wonders against me.
10:17  You renew Your witnesses against me And increase Your vexation toward me; Hardship after hardship is with me.
10:18  ‘Why then have You brought me out of the womb? Would that I had breathed my last and no eye had seen me!
10:19  I should have been as though I had not been, Carried from womb to tomb.’
10:20  Would He not cease for a few of my days? Withdraw from me that I may have a little cheer
10:21  Before I go—and I shall not return— To the land of darkness and shadow of death,
10:22  The land of utter gloom as the thick darkness itself, Of the shadow of death, without order, And which shines as the thick darkness.”