Job 10

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
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 have lost al taste for life, I shal give free rein to my complaining; I shal let my embittered soulspeak out.
2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.	2 I shal say to God, 'Do not condemn me, tel me what your case is against 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 Is it right for you to attack me, in contempt for what you yourself have made, thus abetting theschemes of the wicked?
4 Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?	4 Are your eyes mere human eyes, do you see as human beings see?
5 Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,	5 Are you mortal like human beings? do your years pass as human days pass?
6 That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?	6 You, who enquire into my faults and investigate my sins,
7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.	7 you know very wel that I am innocent, and that no one can rescue me from your grasp.
8 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.	8 Your hands having shaped and created me, now you change your mind and mean to destroy me!
9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?	9 Having made me, remember, as though of clay, now you mean to turn me back into dust!
10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?	10 Did you not pour me out like milk, and then let me thicken like curds,
11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.	11 clothe me with skin and flesh, and weave me of bone and sinew?
12 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.	12 In your love you gave me life, and in your care watched over my every breath.
13 And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.	13 Yet, al the while, you had a secret plan: I know that you were biding your time
14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.	14 to see if I should sin and then not acquit me of my faults.
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 Woe to me, if I am guilty; even if I am upright, I dare not lift my head, so overwhelmed with shameand drunk with pain am I!
16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.	16 Proud as a lion, you hunt me down, multiplying your exploits at my expense,
17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.	17 attacking me again and again, your fury against me ever increasing, your troops assailing me, waveafter wave.
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 should have perished then, unseen by any eye,
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 never been, to be carried from womb to grave.
20 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,	20 The days of my life are few enough: turn your eyes away, leave me a little joy,
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 darkness and shadow dark as death,
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 where dimness and disorder hold sway, and light itself is like dead of night.