Job 10

CHAPTER 10 Job Claims Innocence

1 Being weary in my soul, in moaning I will let loose upon myself my sayings; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul, being constrained. 2 And I will say to the lord, [³not ²me ⁴to be impious ¹Teach]! and why [³me ¹have you so ²judged]? 3 Or is it good to you that I should transgress? that I should forbid the works of your hands? [³the counsel ¹and ⁴of the impious ²did you heed]? 4 Or as a mortal sees -- do you look? or as [²sees ¹a man] -- shall you see? 5 Or your existence -- is it mankind? or your years -- a man's? 6 For you searched out my lawlessnesses, and [²my sins ¹you traced]. 7 For you know that I did not act impious; but who is the one [²from out of ³your hands ¹rescuing]? 8 Your hands shaped me and made me; after these things in turning you smote me. 9 Remember that [²of clay ¹you shaped me], and unto the earth [³me ¹again ²you return]. 10 Or [²not ⁵as ⁶milk ⁴me ¹did you ³extract], and curdled me equal to cheese? 11 But skin and meat you put on me, and with bones and nerves you entwined me. 12 And life and mercy you put upon me, and by your overseeing you guarded my spirit. 13 Having these things in yourself, I know that [²all things ¹you are able to do]; [³is impossible ¹and ⁴with you ²not one thing]. 14 For if I should sin, you guard me; but from lawlessness [²not ⁵innocent ⁴me ¹you have ³appointed]. 15 For if I should be impious, alas; but if I might be just, I am not able to lift up the head, [³full ¹for ⁴of dishonor ²I am]. 16 For I am caught as a lion for slaughter; and again in turning [³awfully ²me ¹you destroy]; 17 renewing upon me my chastisement; [⁴anger ¹and ³in great ²you dealt with me], and you brought [²against ³me ¹trials]. 18 Why then in the belly did you lead me out, and I did not die, that an eye [³me ¹did not ²see], 19 and that [²as if ³one not ⁴being ¹I became]? For why [³from ⁴the womb ⁵unto ⁶the tomb ¹was I not ²dismissed]? 20 Or [²not ⁶little ¹is ³the ⁴time ⁵of my existence]? Allow me to rest a little! 21 before my going from where I shall not return, unto a land dark and dim; 22 unto a land [²darkness ¹of eternal], where there is no brightness, nor seeing the life of mortals.