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| Job 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. | My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry. |
| Job 10:2 | I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; Show me wherefore thou contendest with me. | I will say to God, Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against me. |
| Job 10:3 | Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, That thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, And shine upon the counsel of the wicked? | What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers? |
| Job 10:4 | Hast thou eyes of flesh? Or seest thou as man seeth? | Have you eyes of flesh, or do you see as man sees? |
| Job 10:5 | Are thy days as the days of man, Or thy years as man's days, | Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his, |
| Job 10:6 | That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, And searchest after my sin, | That you take note of my sin, searching after my wrongdoing, |
| Job 10:7 | Although thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand? | Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands? |
| Job 10:8 | Thy hands have framed me and fashioned me Together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. | Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction. |
| Job 10:9 | Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again? | O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust? |
| Job 10:10 | Hast thou not poured me out as milk, And curdled me like cheese? | Was I not drained out like milk, becoming hard like cheese? |
| Job 10:11 | Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews. | By you I was clothed with skin and flesh, and joined together with bones and muscles. |
| Job 10:12 | Thou hast granted me life and lovingkindness; And thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. | You have been kind to me, and your grace has been with me, and your care has kept my spirit safe. |
| Job 10:13 | Yet these things thou didst hide in thy heart; I know that this is with thee: | But you kept these things in the secret of your heart; I am certain this was in your thoughts: |
| Job 10:14 | If I sin, then thou markest me, And thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. | That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin: |
| Job 10:15 | If I be wicked, woe unto me; And if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head; Being filled with ignominy, And looking upon mine affliction. | That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble. |
| Job 10:16 | And if [my head] exalt itself, thou huntest me as a lion; And again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me. | And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me: |
| Job 10:17 | Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, And increasest thine indignation upon me: Changes and warfare are with me. | That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me. |
| Job 10:18 | Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me. | Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me, |
| Job 10:19 | I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. | And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place. |
| Job 10:20 | Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, | Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure, |
| Job 10:21 | Before I go whence I shall not return, [Even] to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; | Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black, |
| Job 10:22 | The land dark as midnight, [The land] of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight. | A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark. |
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