【Job】Chapter 10 << Last Chapter Next Chapter >>

10:1 I loathe my life. 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 smile on the plan of the wicked?

10:4 Have you eyes of flesh? Do you see as man sees?

10:5 Are your days as the days of a mortal, and are your years as a man’s 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 as milk, and thicken me like cheese?

10:11 With skin and flesh you clothed me, with bones and sinews knit me together.

10:12 Grace and favor you granted me, and your providence has preserved my spirit.

10:13 Yet these things you have hidden in your heart; I know that they are your purpose:

10:14 If I should sin, you would keep a watch against me, and from my guilt you would not absolve me.

10:15 If I should be wicked, alas for me! if righteous, I dare not hold up my head, filled with ignominy and sodden with 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 the days of my life few? 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 black, disordered land where darkness is the only light.

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