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10:1  “My soul loathes my life; I will freely give my complaint, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
10:2  I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why You contend with me.
10:3  Is it good for You that You should oppress, that You should despise the work of Your hands and smile on the counsel of the wicked?
10:4  Do You have eyes of flesh? Or do You see as man sees?
10:5  Are Your days as the days of man? Are Your years as the days of a mortal,
10:6  that You inquire after my iniquity and search after my sin?
10:7  You know that I am not wicked, and there is none who can deliver out of Your hand.
10:8  “Your hands have shaped me and made me completely, yet You destroy me.
10:9  Remember, I pray, that You have made me as the clay. And would You return me to dust?
10:10  Have You not poured me out as milk and curdled me like cheese?
10:11  You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and have knit me together with bones and sinews.
10:12  You have granted me life and loyal love, and Your care has preserved my spirit.
10:13  “These things You have hid in Your heart. I know that this is with You.
10:14  If I have sinned, then You would watch me, and You would not acquit me from my iniquity.
10:15  If I am wicked, woe unto me; and if I am righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of shame; look at my affliction!
10:16  For if my head is lifted up, You would hunt me like a lion, and again You show Yourself marvelous to me.
10:17  You renew Your witnesses against me and increase Your indignation upon me. Your troops come against me.
10:18  “Why then did You bring me forth out of the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
10:19  I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
10:20  Are not my days few? Stop then, and leave me alone that I may cheer up a little,
10:21  before I go and do not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,
10:22  a land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as thick darkness.”