Parallel Bible results for "job 10"

Job 10

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

1 I loathe my life; I will let loose my complaint; I will speak out of my own bitterness.

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

2 I will say to God, Don't declare me guilty; tell me what you are accusing me of doing.

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

3 Does it seem good to you that you oppress me, that you reject the work of your hands and cause the purpose of sinners to shine?

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

4 Do you have physical eyes; do you see like a human?

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

5 Are your days like those of a human, your years like years of a human,

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

6 that you search for my wrongdoing and seek my sin?

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

7 You know that I'm not guilty, yet no one delivers me from your power.

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

8 Your hands fashioned and made me; yet you want to destroy me utterly.

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

9 Remember that you made me from clay, and you will return me to dust.

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

10 Didn't you pour me out like milk, curdle me like cheese?

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

11 You clothed me with skin and flesh, wove me from bones and sinews.

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

12 Life and kindness you gave me, and you oversaw and preserved my breath.

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

13 These things you hid in your heart; I know this is the case with you.

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

14 If I sin and you observe me, you won't consider me innocent of wrongdoing.

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.

15 If I were guilty, doom to me; I'm innocent, but can't lift my head, full of shame and facing my misery.

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

16 I could boast like a lion, and you would hunt me; you would do awesome things to me again.

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

17 You continue to send your witnesses against me and increase your anger toward me, a swift army against me.

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

18 Why did you let me emerge from the womb? I wish I had died without any eye seeing me.

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

19 Then I would be just as if I hadn't existed, taken from the belly to the grave.

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

20 Aren't my few days coming to an end? Look away from me so I can brighten up a little

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

21 before I go and don't return to a land of deepest darkness,

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

22 a land whose light is like gloom, utter darkness and confusion, such that light shines like gloom.