Job 10

10I am disgusted with my life.^aa

I will give vent to my complaint

and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

²I will say to God,

“Do not declare me guilty!

Let me know why you prosecute me.

³Is it good for you to oppress,

to reject the work of your hands,^a

and favor^A the plans of the wicked?^b

⁴Do you have eyes of flesh,

or do you see as a human sees?

⁵Are your days like those of a human,

or your years like those of a man,^c

⁶that you look for my iniquity^d

and search for my sin,

⁷even though you know that I am not wicked

and that there is no one who can rescue from your power?^e

⁸“Your hands shaped me and formed me.^f

Will you now turn and destroy me?

⁹Please remember that you formed me like clay.

Will you now return me to dust?^g

¹⁰Did you not pour me out like milk

and curdle me like cheese?

¹¹You clothed me with skin and flesh,

and wove me together with bones and tendons.^h

¹²You gave me life and faithful love,

and your care has guarded my life.

¹³“Yet you concealed these thoughts in your heart;

I know that this was your hidden plan:^B

¹⁴if I sin, you would notice,^C

and would not acquit me of my iniquity.ⁱ

¹⁵If I am wicked, woe to me!

And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head.

I am filled with shame^j

and have drunk deeply of^A my affliction.^k

¹⁶If I am proud,^B you hunt me like a lion

and again display your miraculous power against me.^l

¹⁷You produce new witnesses^C against me

and multiply your anger toward me.

Hardships assault me, wave after wave.^D

¹⁸“Why did you bring me out of the womb?^m

I should have died and never been seen.

¹⁹I wish^E I had never existed

but had been carried from the womb to the grave.ⁿ

²⁰Are my days not few? Stop it!^F

Leave me alone, so that I can smile a little

²¹before I go to a land of darkness and gloom,^o

never to return.

²²It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness,

gloomy and chaotic,

where even the light is like^G the darkness.”