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10:1  With all my heart I am weary of my life, so I will express my complaint freely. I will speak from the bitterness of my heart.
10:2  I will say this to God: Do not condemn me. Tell me why you are pressing charges against me.
10:3  Is it good that you are oppressing me, that you are rejecting what your hands have made, at the same time that you favor the plans of the wicked?
10:4  Do you have eyes made of flesh? Do you see things the way a man does?
10:5  Are your days like a man’s days? Are your years like the life span of a human?
10:6  You do, in fact, investigate guilt, and you do search carefully for sin.
10:7  Although you know that I am not guilty, there is no one who can rescue me from your hand.
10:8  Your hands shaped me and made me, but now you swallow me up completely.
10:9  Please remember that it was you who shaped me like a clay pot. Will you now return me to the dust?
10:10  Aren’t you the one who poured me out like milk, who thickened me like a curd of cheese?
10:11  You clothed me with skin and flesh. You wove me together with bones and tendons.
10:12  You provided me with life and mercy, and your watchful care has guarded my spirit.
10:13  You hid these things in your heart, but I know that this is what you had in mind:
10:14  If I sinned and you were watching me, you would not acquit me of my guilt.
10:15  If I was wicked, I would be cursed! But even if I was righteous, I could not lift up my head, because I am filled with shame and aware of my misery.
10:16  If I lift myself up, you hunt me down like a lion. You turn and display amazing power against me.
10:17  You produce new witnesses to oppose me, and you become more irritated with me. You attack me with reinforcements.
10:18  Why, then, did you bring me out from the womb? I wish I had died. Then no eye would have seen me.
10:19  I wish I had been like someone who never lived. Then I would have been carried from the womb to the tomb.
10:20  Don’t I have only a few days? Stop! Leave me alone, so that I can be happy for a short time,
10:21  before I walk into the land of darkness and into the shadow of death, never to return,
10:22  into the land of gloom, as dark as the shadow of death, into the land of chaos, where even light is darkness.