Job 10

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