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10:1  I will give myself up to complaint; I will speak from the bitterness of my soul.
10:2  I will say to God: Do not put me in the wrong! Let me know why you oppose me.
10:3  Is it a pleasure for you to oppress, to spurn the work of your hands, and shine on the plan of the wicked?
10:4  Have you eyes of flesh? Do you see as mortals see?
10:5  Are your days like the days of a mortal, and are your years like a human lifetime,
10:6  That you seek for guilt in me and search after my sins,
10:7  Even though you know that I am not wicked, and that none can deliver me out of your hand?
10:8  Your hands have formed me and fashioned me; will you then turn and destroy me?
10:9  Oh, remember that you fashioned me from clay! Will you then bring me down to dust again?
10:10  Did you not pour me out like milk, and thicken me like cheese?
10:11  With skin and flesh you clothed me, with bones and sinews knit me together.
10:12  Life and love you granted me, and your providence has preserved my spirit.
10:13  Yet these things you have hidden in your heart; I know they are your purpose:
10:14  If I should sin, you would keep a watch on me, and from my guilt you would not absolve me.
10:15  If I should be wicked, alas for me! even if righteous, I dare not hold up my head, sated with shame, drenched in affliction!
10:16  Should it lift up, you hunt me like a lion: repeatedly you show your wondrous power against me,
10:17  You renew your attack upon me and multiply your harassment of me; in waves your troops come against me.
10:18  Why then did you bring me forth from the womb? I should have died and no eye have seen me.
10:19  I should be as though I had never lived; I should have been taken from the womb to the grave.
10:20  Are not my days few? Stop! Let me alone, that I may recover a little
10:21  Before I go whence I shall not return, to the land of darkness and of gloom,
10:22  The dark, disordered land where darkness is the only light.