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Job 10
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1Weary in my soul, I will pour my words with groans upon him: I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul.
1My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and therefore have you thus judged me?
2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
3Is it good before you if I be unrighteous? for you have disowned the work of your hands, and attended to the counsel of the ungodly.
3Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
4Or do you see as a mortal sees? or will you look as a man sees?
4Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
5Or is your life human, or your years [the years] of a man,
5Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man’s days,
6that you have enquired into my iniquity, and searched out my sins?
6That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
7For you know that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that can deliver out of your hands?
7Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
8Your hands have formed me and made me ; afterwards you did change [your mind], and strike me.
8Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
9Rememberthat you have made me [as] clay, and you do turn me again to earth.
9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
10Have you not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?
10Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
11And you did clothe me with skin and flesh, and frame me with bones and sinews.
11Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
12And you did bestow upon me life and mercy, and your oversight has preserved my spirit.
12Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
13Having these things in yourself, I know that you can do all things; for nothing is impossible with you.
13And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.
14And if I should sin, you watch me; and you have not cleared me from iniquity.
14If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
15Or if I should be ungodly, woe is me: and if I should be righteous, I can’t lift myself up, for I am full of dishonor.
15If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
16For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again you have changed and are terribly destroying me;
16For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
17renewing against me my torture: and you have dealt with me in great anger, and you have brought trials upon me.
17Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
18Why then did you bring me out of the womb? and why did I not die, and no eye see me,
18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
19and I become as if I had not been? for why was I not 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.
20Is not the time of my life short? suffer me to rest a little,
20Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
21before I go whence I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess;
21Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
22to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither [can any one] see the life of mortals.
22A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.