|
1
|
"I loathe my very life; therefore I will give free rein to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul. |
|---|
|
2
|
I will say to God: Do not condemn me, but tell me what charges you have against me. |
|---|
|
3
|
Does it please you to oppress me, to spurn the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked? |
|---|
|
4
|
Do you have eyes of flesh? Do you see as a mortal sees? |
|---|
|
5
|
Are your days like those of a mortal or your years like those of a man, |
|---|
|
6
|
that you must search out my faults and probe after my sin-- |
|---|
|
7
|
though you know that I am not guilty and that no-one can rescue me from your hand? |
|---|
|
8
|
"Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me? |
|---|
|
9
|
Remember that you moulded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again? |
|---|
|
10
|
Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese, |
|---|
|
11
|
clothe me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews? |
|---|
|
12
|
You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit. |
|---|
|
13
|
"But this is what you concealed in your heart, and I know that this was in your mind: |
|---|
|
14
|
If I sinned, you would be watching me and would not let my offence go unpunished. |
|---|
|
15
|
If I am guilty--woe to me! Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head, for I am full of shame and drowned in my affliction. |
|---|
|
16
|
If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lion and again display your awesome power against me. |
|---|
|
17
|
You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger towards me; your forces come against me wave upon wave. |
|---|
|
18
|
"Why then did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died before any eye saw me. |
|---|
|
19
|
If only I had never come into being, or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave! |
|---|
|
20
|
Are not my few days almost over? Turn away from me so that I can have a moment's joy |
|---|
|
21
|
before I go to the place of no return, to the land of gloom and deep shadow, |
|---|
|
22
|
to the land of deepest night, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness." |
|---|
Job 10:1 English Language Bible Words basic statistical display
COMING SOON ...