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10:1  I am disgusted with my life. I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
10:2  I will say to God: "Do not declare me guilty! Let me know why You prosecute me.
10:3  Is it good for You to oppress, to reject the work of Your hands, and favor the plans of the wicked?
10:4  Do You have eyes of flesh, or do You see as a human sees?
10:5  Are Your days like those of a human, or Your years like those of a man,
10:6  that You look for my wrongdoing and search for my sin,
10:7  even though You know that I am not wicked and that there is no one who can deliver from Your hand?
10:8  "Your hands shaped me and formed me. Will You now turn and destroy me?
10:9  Please remember that You formed me like clay. Will You now return me to dust?
10:10  Did You not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?
10:11  You clothed me with skin and flesh, and wove me together with bones and tendons.
10:12  You gave me life and faithful love, and Your care has guarded my life.
10:13  "Yet You concealed these thoughts in Your heart; I know that this was Your hidden plan:
10:14  if I sin, You would notice, and would not acquit me of my wrongdoing.
10:15  If I am wicked, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head. I am filled with shame and aware of my affliction.
10:16  If I am proud, You hunt me like a lion and again display Your miraculous power against me.
10:17  You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me, wave after wave.
10:18  "Why did You bring me out of the womb? I should have died and never been seen.
10:19  I wish I had never existed but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
10:20  Are my days not few? Stop it! Leave me alone, so that I can smile a little
10:21  before I go to a land of darkness and gloom, never to return.
10:22  It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness, gloomy and chaotic, where even the light is like the darkness."