Jó 10

¹ My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I 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 Is it good to you that you should oppress, That you should despise the work of your hands, And shine on the counsel of the wicked?

⁴ Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as common man sees?

⁵ Are your days as the days of common man, Or your years as the days of [noble] man,

⁶ That you inquire after my iniquity, And search after my sin,

⁷ Although you know that I am not wicked, And there is none who can deliver out of your hand?

⁸ Your hands have framed me and fashioned me, Together round about; yet you destroy me.

⁹ Remember, I urge you, that you have fashioned me as clay; And will you bring me into dust again?

¹⁰ Have you not poured me out as milk, And curdled me like cheese?

¹¹ You have clothed me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews.

¹² You have granted me life and loving-kindness; And your visitation has preserved my spirit.

¹³ Yet these things you hid in your heart; I know that this is with you:

¹⁴ If I sin, then you mark me, And you will not acquit me from my iniquity.

¹⁵ If I am wicked, woe to me; And if I am righteous, yet I will not lift up my head, Filled with shame and drunk with my affliction.

¹⁶ And if [my head] exalts itself, you hunt me as a lion; And again you show yourself marvelous on me.

¹⁷ You renew your witnesses against me, And increase your indignation on me: Changes and warfare are with me.

¹⁸ Why then have you brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

¹⁹ I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

²⁰ Are not my days few? stop. Turn away from me, that I may take comfort a little,

²¹ Before I go from where I will not return, [Even] to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

²² The land dark as midnight, [The land] of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.