Job - Chapter 10 - A Conservative Version
- My soul is weary of my life. I will give free reign to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- I will say to God, Do not condemn me. Show me why thou contend with me.
- Is it good to thee that thou should oppress, that thou should despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
- Have thou eyes of flesh? Or do thou see as man sees?
- Are thy days as the days of man, or thy years as man's days,
- that thou inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin,
- although thou know that I am not wicked. And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?
- Thy hands have made me and fashioned me together round about, yet thou destroy me.
- Remember, I beseech thee, that thou have fashioned me as clay. And will thou bring me into dust again?
- Have thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
- Thou have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
- Thou have granted me life and loving kindness, and thy visitation has preserved my spirit.
- Yet these things thou hid in thy heart. I know that this is with thee.
- If I sin, then thou mark me. And thou will not acquit me from my iniquity.
- If I be wicked, woe to me. And if I be righteous, yet I shall not lift up my head, being filled with shame, and looking upon my affliction.
- And if [my head] exalts itself, thou hunt me as a lion. And again thou show thyself marvelous upon me.
- Thou renew thy witnesses against me, and increase thine indignation upon me. Changes and warfare are with me.
- Why then have thou brought me forth out of the womb? I would have given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
- I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
- Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little
- before I go where I shall not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death,
- the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as midnight.