Job 10
- 1 My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- 2 I say unto God, 'Do not condemn me, Let me know why Thou dost strive [with] me.
- 3 Is it good for Thee that Thou dost oppress? That Thou despisest the labour of Thy hands, And on the counsel of the wicked hast shone?
- 4 Eyes of flesh hast Thou? As man seeth — seest Thou?
- 5 As the days of man [are] Thy days? Thy years as the days of a man?
- 6 That Thou inquirest for mine iniquity, And for my sin seekest?
- 7 For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Thy hand.
- 8 Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up!
- 9 Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back.
- 10 Dost Thou not as milk pour me out? And as cheese curdle me?
- 11 Skin and flesh Thou dost put on me, And with bones and sinews dost fence me.
- 12 Life and kindness Thou hast done with me. And Thy inspection hath preserved my spirit.
- 13 And these Thou hast laid up in Thy heart, I have known that this [is] with Thee.
- 14 If I sinned, then Thou hast observed me, And from mine iniquity dost not acquit me,
- 15 If I have done wickedly — woe to me, And righteously — I lift not up my head, Full of shame — then see my affliction,
- 16 And it riseth — as a lion Thou huntest me. And Thou turnest back — Thou shewest Thyself wonderful in me.
- 17 Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare [are] with me.
- 18 And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.
- 19 As I had not been, I am, From the belly to the grave I am brought,
- 20 Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,
- 21 Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,
- 22 A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade — and no order, And the shining [is] as thick darkness.'
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