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10:1  “I am disgusted with my own life; I will express my complaint freely; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
10:2  I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me; Let me know why You contend with me.
10:3  Is it right for You indeed to oppress, To reject the work of Your hands, And to look favorably on the plan of the wicked?
10:4  Do You have eyes of flesh? Or do You see as mankind sees?
10:5  Are Your days like the days of a mortal, Or Your years like a man’s year,
10:6  That You should search for my guilt And carefully seek my sin?
10:7  According to Your knowledge I am indeed not guilty, Yet there is no one to save me from Your hand.
10:8  ‘Your hands fashioned and made me altogether, Yet would You destroy me?
10:9  Remember that You have made me as clay; Yet 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 intertwine me with bones and tendons?
10:12  You have granted me life and goodness; And Your care has guarded my spirit.
10:13  Yet You have concealed these things in Your heart; I know that this is within You:
10:14  If I have sinned, You will take note of me, And will not acquit me of my guilt.
10:15  If I am wicked, woe to me! But if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head. I am full of shame, and conscious of my misery.
10:16  And should my head be high, You would hunt me like a lion; And You would show Your power against me again.
10:17  You renew Your witnesses against me And increase Your anger toward me; Hardship after hardship is with me.
10:18  ‘Why then did You bring me out of the womb? If only I had died and no eye had seen me!
10:19  I should have been as though I had not been, Brought from womb to tomb.’
10:20  Would He not leave my few days alone? Withdraw from me so that I may have a little cheerfulness
10:21  Before I go—and I shall not return— To the land of darkness and deep shadow,
10:22  The land of utter gloom like darkness itself, Of deep shadow without order, And it shines like darkness.”