Job, 10

1. My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

1. Since I loathe my life, I shall pour forth my complaint; I shall speak of my soul's torment.

2. I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.

2. I shall say to God: Do not condemn me, but tell me what is your quarrel with me?

3. [Is 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?

3. Would it be good for you to oppress me, to spurn the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked?

4. Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?

4. Have you human eyes? Do you see as man sees?

5. [Are] thy days as the days of man? [are] thy years as man's days,

5. Are your days as the days of man, or your years as a mortal's lifetime?

6. That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?

6. Why do you seek guilt in me and search for my faults?

7. Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and [there is] none that can deliver out of thine hand.

7. You know I have not sinned, but who can rescue me from your hand?

8. Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

8. You have formed and made me. Will you then turn and destroy me? Will you then turn and destroy me?

9. Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

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

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

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

11. Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.

11. You wrapped me up in skin and flesh, knit me together with bones and sinews.

12. Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.

12. In your goodness you gave me life and watched over my breathing with care.

13. And these [things] hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this [is] with thee.

13. Yet this is what you hid in your heart, I know what was in your mind:

14. If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

14. You wanted to see if I sinned, and not let my fault be forgiven.

15. If 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;

15. If I am guilty - alas for me! If innocent - I dare not lift my head, humbled and shamed in my affliction.

16. For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

16. Exhausted, you hunt me like a lion, you want to prove that you are stronger.

17. Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war [are] against me.

17. You renew your attack on me; you intensify your rage, wave upon wave, your forces assail me.

18. Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

18. Why did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died unseen,

19. I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

19. a being that had not been - carried from the womb direct to the tomb.

20. [Are] not my days few? cease [then, and] let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

20. Are not my days almost over? Turn away; leave me a while to recover

21. Before I go [whence] I shall not return, [even] to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

21. before I go to the place of no return, to the land of gloom and shadow,

22. A land of darkness, as darkness [itself; and] of the shadow of death, without any order, and [where] the light [is] as darkness.

22. to the land of chaos and deepest night, where darkness is the only light.