Parallel Bible results for "Job 10"

Job 10

1 "I hate my life, so I will complain without holding back; I will speak because I am so unhappy.

1 “I loathe my very life; therefore I will give free rein to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.

2 I will say to God: Do not hold me guilty, but tell me what you have against me.

2 I say to God: Do not declare me guilty, but tell me what charges you have against me.

3 Does it make you happy to trouble me? Don't you care about me, the work of your hands? Are you happy with the plans of evil people?

3 Does it please you to oppress me, to spurn the work of your hands, while you smile on the plans of the wicked?

4 Do you have human eyes that see as we see?

4 Do you have eyes of flesh? Do you see as a mortal sees?

5 Are your days like the days of humans, and your years like our years?

5 Are your days like those of a mortal or your years like those of a strong man,

6 You look for the evil I have done and search for my sin.

6 that you must search out my faults and probe after my sin—

7 You know I am not guilty, but no one can save me from your power.

7 though you know that I am not guilty and that no one can rescue me from your hand?

8 "Your hands shaped and made me. Do you now turn around and destroy me?

8 “Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me?

9 Remember that you molded me like a piece of clay. Will you now turn me back into dust?

9 Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again?

10 You formed me inside my mother like cheese formed from milk.

10 Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese,

11 You dressed me with skin and flesh; you sewed me together with bones and muscles.

11 clothe me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews?

12 You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your care you watched over my life.

12 You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit.

13 "But in your heart you hid other plans. I know this was in your mind.

13 “But this is what you concealed in your heart, and I know that this was in your mind:

14 If I sinned, you would watch me and would not let my sin go unpunished.

14 If I sinned, you would be watching me and would not let my offense go unpunished.

15 How terrible it will be for me if I am guilty! Even if I am right, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and experience only pain.

15 If I am guilty—woe to me! Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head, for I am full of shame and drowned in my affliction.

16 If I hold up my head, you hunt me like a lion and again show your terrible power against me.

16 If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lion and again display your awesome power against me.

17 You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger against me. Your armies come against me.

17 You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger toward me; your forces come against me wave upon wave.

18 "So why did you allow me to be born? I wish I had died before anyone saw me.

18 “Why then did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died before any eye saw me.

19 I wish I had never lived, but had been carried straight from birth to the grave.

19 If only I had never come into being, or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!

20 The few days of my life are almost over. Leave me alone so I can have a moment of joy.

20 Are not my few days almost over? Turn away from me so I can have a moment’s joy

21 Soon I will leave; I will not return from the land of darkness and gloom,

21 before I go to the place of no return, to the land of gloom and utter darkness,

22 the land of darkest night, from the land of gloom and confusion, where even the light is darkness."

22 to the land of deepest night, of utter darkness and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”