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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 am just worn out. "By my life [I swear], I will never abandon my complaint; I will speak out in my soul's 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 condemn me! Tell me why you are contending with me.

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 Do you gain some advantage from oppressing, from spurning what your own hands made, from shining on the schemes of the wicked?

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

4 Do you have eyes of flesh? Do you see as humans see?

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

5 Are your days like the days of mortals? Are your years like human years,

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

6 that you have to seek my guilt and search out 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 won't be condemned, yet no one can rescue me from your power.

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

8 Your own hands shaped me, they made me; so why do you turn and destroy me?

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

9 Please remember that you made me, like clay; will you 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, then let me thicken 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 you knit me together with bones and sinews.

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

12 You granted me life and grace; your careful attention preserved my spirit.

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

13 "'Yet you hid these things in your heart; I know what your secret purpose was -

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

14 to watch until I would sin and then not absolve me of my guilt.

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 am wicked, woe to me! -but if righteous, I still don't dare raise my head, because I am so filled with shame, so soaked in my misery.

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

16 You rise up to hunt me like a lion, and you keep treating me in such peculiar ways.

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

17 You keep producing fresh witnesses against me, your anger against me keeps growing, your troops assail me, wave after wave.

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 bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died there where no eye could see me.

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

19 I would have been as if I had never existed, I would have been carried from womb to 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 days few? So stop! Leave me alone, so I can cheer 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 to the place of no return, to the land of darkness and death-dark gloom,

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

22 a land of gloom like darkness itself, of dense darkness and utter disorder, where even the light is dark.'"