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Job 10

1“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
1“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
2I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
3Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?
3Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?
4Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?
4Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?
5Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man,
5Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man’s years,
6that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin—
6that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?
7though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
7Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.
8Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
8“‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.
9Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
9Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
10Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?
10Haven’t you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?
11You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
11You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
12You have granted me life and loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit.
12You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.
13Yet You concealed these things in Your heart, and I know that this was in Your mind:
13Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:
14If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.
14if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.
15If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.
15If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.
16Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.
16If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.
17You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.
17You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.
18Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
18“‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
19If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
19I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
20Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,
20Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
21before I go—never to return—to a land of darkness and gloom,
21before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
22to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
22the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’”