Job 10

10“I hate my life,

so I will complain without holding back;

I will speak because I am so unhappy.

²I will say to God: Do not hold me guilty,

but tell me what you have against me.

³Does it make you happy to trouble me?

Don’t you care about me, the work of your hands?

Are you happy with the plans of evil people?

⁴Do you have human eyes

that see as we see?

⁵Are your days like the days of humans,

and your years like our years?

⁶You look for the evil I have done

and search for my sin.

⁷You know I am not guilty,

but no one can save me from your power.

⁸“Your hands shaped and made me.

Do you now turn around and destroy me?

⁹Remember that you molded me like a piece of clay.

Will you now turn me back into dust?

¹⁰You formed me inside my mother

like cheese formed from milk.

¹¹You dressed me with skin and flesh;

you sewed me together with bones and muscles.

¹²You gave me life and showed me kindness,

and in your care you watched over my life.

¹³“But in your heart you hid other plans.

I know this was in your mind.

¹⁴If I sinned, you would watch me

and would not let my sin go unpunished.

¹⁵How terrible it will be for me if I am guilty!

Even if I am right, I cannot lift my head.

I am full of shame

and experience only pain.

¹⁶If I hold up my head, you hunt me like a lion

and again show your terrible power against me.

¹⁷You bring new witnesses against me

and increase your anger against me.

Your armies come against me.

¹⁸“So why did you allow me to be born?

I wish I had died before anyone saw me.

¹⁹I wish I had never lived,

but had been carried straight from birth to the grave.

²⁰The few days of my life are almost over.

Leave me alone so I can have a moment of joy.

²¹Soon I will leave; I will not return

from the land of darkness and gloom,

²²the land of darkest night,

from the land of gloom and confusion,

where even the light is darkness.”