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10:1  I am tired of living. Listen to my bitter complaint.
10:2  Don't condemn me, God. Tell me! What is the charge against me?
10:3  Is it right for you to be so cruel? To despise what you yourself have made? And then to smile on the schemes of wicked people?
10:4  Do you see things as we do?
10:5  Is your life as short as ours?
10:6  Then why do you track down all my sins and hunt down every fault I have?
10:7  You know that I am not guilty, that no one can save me from you.
10:8  Your hands formed and shaped me, and now those same hands destroy me.
10:9  Remember that you made me from clay; are you going to crush me back to dust?
10:10  You gave my father strength to beget me; you made me grow in my mother's womb.
10:11  You formed my body with bones and sinews and covered the bones with muscles and skin.
10:12  You have given me life and constant love, and your care has kept me alive.
10:13  But now I know that all that time you were secretly planning to harm me.
10:14  You were watching to see if I would sin, so that you could refuse to forgive me.
10:15  As soon as I sin, I'm in trouble with you, but when I do right, I get no credit. I am miserable and covered with shame.
10:16  If I have any success at all, you hunt me down like a lion; to hurt me you even work miracles.
10:17  You always have some witness against me; your anger toward me grows and grows; you always plan some new attack.
10:18  Why, God, did you let me be born? I should have died before anyone saw me.
10:19  To go from the womb straight to the grave would have been as good as never existing.
10:20  Isn't my life almost over? Leave me alone! Let me enjoy the time I have left.
10:21  I am going soon and will never come back— going to a land that is dark and gloomy,
10:22  a land of darkness, shadows, and confusion, where the light itself is darkness.