Job 10

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¹ I loathe my life. I will give myself up to complaint; I will speak from 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 to God: Do not put me in the wrong! Let me know why you oppose me.	² I shal say to God, 'Do not condemn me, tel me what your case is against me.
³ Is it a pleasure for you to oppress, to spurn the work of your hands, and smile on the plan 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 Have you eyes of flesh? Do you see as man sees?	⁴ Are your eyes mere human eyes, do you see as human beings see?
⁵ Are your days as the days of a mortal, and are your years as a man's lifetime,	⁵ Are you mortal like human beings? do your years pass as human days pass?
⁶ That you seek for guilt in me and search after my sins,	⁶ You, who enquire into my faults and investigate my sins,
⁷ Even though you know that I am not wicked, and that none can deliver me out of your hand?	⁷ you know very wel that I am innocent, and that no one can rescue me from your grasp.
⁸ Your hands have formed me and fashioned me; will you then turn and destroy me?	⁸ Your hands having shaped and created me, now you change your mind and mean to destroy me!
⁹ Oh, remember that you fashioned me from clay! Will you then bring me down to dust again?	⁹ Having made me, remember, as though of clay, now you mean to turn me back into dust!
¹⁰ Did you not pour me out as milk, and thicken me like cheese?	¹⁰ Did you not pour me out like milk, and then let me thicken like curds,
¹¹ With skin and flesh you clothed me, with bones and sinews knit me together.	¹¹ clothe me with skin and flesh, and weave me of bone and sinew?
¹² Grace and favor you granted me, and your providence has preserved my spirit.	¹² In your love you gave me life, and in your care watched over my every breath.
¹³ Yet these things you have hidden in your heart; I know that they are your purpose:	¹³ Yet, al the while, you had a secret plan: I know that you were biding your time
¹⁴ If I should sin, you would keep a watch against me, and from my guilt you would not absolve me.	¹⁴ to see if I should sin and then not acquit me of my faults.
¹⁵ If I should be wicked, alas for me! if righteous, I dare not hold up my head, filled with ignominy and sodden with 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 Should it lift up, you hunt me like a lion: repeatedly you show your wondrous power against me,	¹⁶ Proud as a lion, you hunt me down, multiplying your exploits at my expense,
¹⁷ You renew your attack upon me and multiply your harassment of me; in waves your troops come against me.	¹⁷ attacking me again and again, your fury against me ever increasing, your troops assailing me, waveafter wave.
¹⁸ Why then did you bring me forth from the womb? I should have died and no eye have seen me.	¹⁸ Why did you bring me out of the womb? I should have perished then, unseen by any eye,
¹⁹ I should be as though I had never lived; I should have been taken from the womb to the grave.	¹⁹ a being that had never been, to be carried from womb to grave.
²⁰ Are not the days of my life few? Let me alone, that I may recover 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, to the land of darkness and of gloom,	²¹ before I go to the place of no return, to the land of darkness and shadow dark as death,
²² The black, disordered land where darkness is the only light.	²² where dimness and disorder hold sway, and light itself is like dead of night.

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