Job 10
10:1Being weary in my soul, in moaning I will let loose upon myself my sayings; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul, being constrained.
10:2And I will say to the lord, Teach me not to be impious! and why have you so judged me?
10:3Or is it good to you that I should transgress? that I should forbid the works of your hands? and did you heed the counsel of the impious?
10:4Or as a mortal sees -- do you look? or as a man sees -- shall you see?
10:5Or your existence -- is it mankind? or your years -- a man's?
10:6For you searched out my lawlessnesses, and you traced my sins.
10:7For you know that I did not act impious; but who is the one rescuing from out of your hands?
10:8Your hands shaped me and made me; after these things in turning you smote me.
10:9Remember that you shaped me of clay, and unto the earth again you return me.
10:10Or did you not extract me as milk, and curdled me equal to cheese?
10:11But skin and meat you put on me, and with bones and nerves you entwined me.
10:12And life and mercy you put upon me, and by your overseeing you guarded my spirit.
10:13Having these things in yourself, I know that you are able to do all things; and not one thing is impossible with you.
10:14For if I should sin, you guard me; but from lawlessness you have not appointed me innocent.
10:15For if I should be impious, alas; but if I might be just, I am not able to lift up the head, for I am full of dishonor.
10:16For I am caught as a lion for slaughter; and again in turning you destroy me awfully;
10:17renewing upon me my chastisement; and you dealt with me in great anger, and you brought trials against me.
10:18Why then in the belly did you lead me out, and I did not die, that an eye did not see me,
10:19and that I became as if one not being? For why was I not dismissed from the womb unto the tomb?
10:20Or is not the time of my existence little? Allow me to rest a little!
10:21before my going from where I shall not return, unto a land dark and dim;
10:22unto a land of eternal darkness, where there is no brightness, nor seeing the life of mortals.