Jó 10

¹ My soul loathes my life; I will leave behind my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

² I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why You contend with me.

³ Has it been delightful to You that You oppress, that You despise the work of Your hands, and have shone on the counsel of the wicked?

⁴ Do You have eyes of flesh? Or do You see as man sees?

⁵ Are Your days like the days of mortal man? Are Your years like the days of a mighty man,

⁶ that You should seek out my iniquity and search out my sin,

⁷ although You know that I am not wicked, and there is no one who can rescue out of Your hand?

⁸ Your hands have made me and fashioned me together all around; yet You swallow me up.

⁹ Remember, I beseech You, that You have made me like clay. And will You bring me back and return me to dust?

¹⁰ Did you not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?

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

¹² You have granted me life and favor, and Your care has preserved my spirit.

¹³ And these things You have hidden in Your heart; I have known that this was with You.

¹⁴ If I have sinned, then You have kept watch over me, and will not acquit me of my iniquity.

¹⁵ If I have been wicked, woe to me! And if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head; I am full of disgrace. Pay attention to my affliction!

¹⁶ If I am exalted, You hunt me like a lion, and return to show Yourself wondrously to me.

¹⁷ You renew Your witnesses against me, and increase Your indignation toward me; changes and war are with me.

¹⁸ Why then have You brought me out of the womb? Oh, that I had expired and no eye had seen me!

¹⁹ I would have been as though I had not been. I would have been carried from the womb to the grave.

²⁰ Are not my days few? Then cease and leave me alone, that I may take a little comfort

²¹ before I go and not return; to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

²² a land of darkness and gloom, as the shadow of death, without any order; where it shines as darkness.