Job 10

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
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.