en_cjb - Job 10 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ “I am just worn out. “By my life [I swear], I will never abandon my complaint; I will speak out in my soul’s bitterness.

² I will say to God, ‘Don’t condemn me! Tell me why you are contending with me.

³ Do you gain some advantage from oppressing, from spurning what your own hands made, from shining on the schemes of the wicked?

⁴ Do you have eyes of flesh? Do you see as humans see?

⁵ Are your days like the days of mortals? Are your years like human years,

⁶ that you have to seek my guilt and search out my sin?

⁷ You know that I won’t be condemned, yet no one can rescue me from your power.

⁸ Your own hands shaped me, they made me; so why do you turn and destroy me?

⁹ Please remember that you made me, like clay; will you return me to dust?

¹⁰ Didn’t you pour me out like milk, then let me thicken like cheese?

¹¹ You clothed me with skin and flesh you knit me together with bones and sinews.

¹² You granted me life and grace; your careful attention preserved my spirit.

¹³ “‘Yet you hid these things in your heart; I know what your secret purpose was —

¹⁴ to watch until I would sin and then not absolve me of my guilt.

¹⁵ If I am wicked, woe to me! — but if righteous, I still don’t dare raise my head, because I am so filled with shame, so soaked in my misery.

¹⁶ You rise up to hunt me like a lion, and you keep treating me in such peculiar ways.

¹⁷ You keep producing fresh witnesses against me, your anger against me keeps growing, your troops assail me, wave after wave.

¹⁸ “‘Why did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died there where no eye could see me.

¹⁹ I would have been as if I had never existed, I would have been carried from womb to grave.

²⁰ Aren’t my days few? So stop! Leave me alone, so I can cheer up a little

²¹ before I go to the place of no return, to the land of darkness and death-dark gloom,

²² a land of gloom like darkness itself, of dense darkness and utter disorder, where even the light is dark.’”