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.

²And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and wherefore hast thou thus judged me?

²And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and therefore have you thus judged me?

³Is it good before thee if I be unrighteous? for thou hast disowned the work of thy hands, and attended to the counsel of the ungodly.

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.

⁴Or dost thou see as a mortal sees? or wilt thou look as a man sees?

⁴Or do you see as a mortal sees? or will you look as a man sees?

⁵Or is thy life human, or thy years [the years] of a man,

⁵Or is your life human, or your years [the years] of a man,

⁶that thou hast enquired into mine iniquity, and searched out my sins?

⁶that you have enquired into my iniquity, and searched out my sins?

⁷For thou knowest that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that can deliver out of thy hands?

⁷For you know that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that can deliver out of your hands?

⁸Thy hands have formed me and made me; afterwards thou didst change [thy mind], and smite me.

⁸Your hands have formed me and made me; afterwards you did change [your mind], and strike me.

⁹Remember that thou hast made me [as] clay, and thou dost turn me again to earth.

⁹Remember that you have made me [as] clay, and you do turn me again to earth.

¹⁰Hast thou not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?

¹⁰Have you not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?

¹¹And thou didst clothe me with skin and flesh, and frame me with bones and sinews.

¹¹And you did clothe me with skin and flesh, and frame me with bones and sinews.

¹²And thou didst bestow upon me life and mercy, and thy oversight has preserved my spirit.

¹²And you did bestow upon me life and mercy, and your oversight has preserved my spirit.

¹³Having these things in thyself, I know that thou canst do all things; for nothing is impossible with thee.

¹³Having these things in yourself, I know that you can do all things; for nothing is impossible with you.

¹⁴And if I should sin, thou watchest me; and thou hast not cleared me from iniquity.

¹⁴And if I should sin, you watch me; and you have not cleared me from iniquity.

¹⁵Or if I should be ungodly, woe is me: and if I should be righteous, I cannot lift myself up, for I am full of dishonour.

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.

¹⁶For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again thou hast changed and art terribly destroying me;

¹⁶For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again you have changed and are terribly destroying me;

¹⁷renewing against me my torture: and thou hast dealt with me in great anger, and thou hast brought trials upon me.

¹⁷renewing against me my torture: and you have dealt with me in great anger, and you have brought trials upon me.

¹⁸Why then didst thou bring me out of the womb? and why did I not die, and no eye see me,

¹⁸Why then did you bring me out of the womb? and why did I not die, and no eye see me,

¹⁹and I become as if I had not been? for why was I not carried from the womb to the grave?

²⁰Is not the time of my life short? suffer me to rest a little,

²¹before I go whence I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess;

²²to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither [can any one] see the life of mortals.