Job 10

Revised Geneva Translation

10 “My soul loathes my life. I will leave my complaint upon myself and will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

² “I will say to God, “Do not condemn me. Show me why You contend with me.

³ “Do You think it good to oppress me and to cast off the labor of Your hands, and to favor the counsel of the wicked?

⁴ “Have You carnal eyes? Or do You see as man sees?

⁵ “Are Your days as man’s days or Your years as the time of man,

⁶ “that You inquire of my iniquity and search out my sin?

⁷ “You know that I cannot do wickedly. For no one can deliver me out of Your Hand.

⁸ “Your Hands have made me and fashioned me, wholly, all around. And will You destroy me?

⁹ “Please remember that You have made me as the clay. And will You bring me to dust again?

¹⁰ “Have You not poured me out as milk and turned me to curds like cheese?

¹¹ “You have clothed me with skin and flesh and joined me together with bones and sinews.

¹² “You have given me life and grace. And the visitation has preserved my spirit.

¹³ “Though You have hidden these things in Your Heart, I know that it is so with You.

¹⁴ “If I have sinned, then You will mark me and will not hold me guiltless of my iniquity.

¹⁵ “If I have done wickedly, woe to me. If I have done righteously, I will not lift up my head, being full of dishonor because I see my affliction.

¹⁶ “But let it increase. Hunt me as a lion. Return and show Yourself marvelous upon me.

¹⁷ “You renew Your plagues against me. And You increase Your wrath against me. Changes and armies are against me.

¹⁸ “Why, then, have You brought me out of the womb? Oh, that I had perished, and that no eye had seen me,

¹⁹ “that I were as I had not been, brought from the womb to the grave!

²⁰ “Are not my days few? Let him cease. Let me be, so that I may take a little comfort

²¹ “before I go and do not return, to the land of darkness and shadow of death,

²² “into a land dark as darkness itself, into the shadow of death, where is no order, but the light as darkness.”