Job 10

NEW JERUSALEM	Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
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 free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in 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 condemn me; let me know why thou dost contend against 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 Does it seem good to thee to oppress, to despise the work of thy hands and favor the designs of the wicked?
4 Are your eyes mere human eyes, do you see as human beings see?	4 Hast thou eyes of flesh? Dost thou see as man sees?
5 Are you mortal like human beings? do your years pass as human days pass?	5 Are thy days as the days of man, or thy years as man's years,
6 You, who enquire into my faults and investigate my sins,	6 that thou dost seek out my iniquity and search for my sin,
7 you know very wel that I am innocent, and that no one can rescue me from your grasp.	7 although thou knowest that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of thy hand?
8 Your hands having shaped and created me, now you change your mind and mean to destroy me!	8 Thy hands fashioned and made me; and now thou dost turn about and destroy me.
9 Having made me, remember, as though of clay, now you mean to turn me back into dust!	9 Remember that thou hast made me of clay; and wilt thou turn me to dust again?
10 Did you not pour me out like milk, and then let me thicken like curds,	10 Didst thou not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?
11 clothe me with skin and flesh, and weave me of bone and sinew?	11 Thou didst clothe me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
12 In your love you gave me life, and in your care watched over my every breath.	12 Thou hast granted me life and steadfast love; and thy care 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 thou didst hide in thy heart; I know that this was thy purpose.
14 to see if I should sin and then not acquit me of my faults.	14 If I sin, thou dost mark me, and dost not acquit me of my iniquity.
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 am wicked, woe to me! If I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look upon my affliction.
16 Proud as a lion, you hunt me down, multiplying your exploits at my expense,	16 And if I lift myself up, thou dost hunt me like a lion, and again work wonders against me;
17 attacking me again and again, your fury against me ever increasing, your troops assailing me, waveafter wave.	17 thou dost renew thy witnesses against me, and increase thy vexation toward me; thou dost bring fresh hosts against me.
18 Why did you bring me out of the womb? I should have perished then, unseen by any eye,	18 "Why didst thou bring me forth from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me,
19 a being that had never been, to be carried from womb to grave.	19 and were as though I had not been, carried 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 find a little comfort
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 gloom and deep darkness,
22 where dimness and disorder hold sway, and light itself is like dead of night.	22 the land of gloom and chaos, where light is as darkness."