Job 10 — BST
10Verse 1Weary in my soul, I will pour my words with groans upon him: I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul.Verse 2And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and wherefore hast thou thus judged me?Verse 3Is it good before thee if I be unrighteous? for thou hast disowned the work of thy hands, and attended to the counsel of the ungodly.Verse 4Or dost thou see as a mortal sees? or wilt thou look as a man sees?Verse 5Or is thy life human, or thy years the years of a man,Verse 6that thou hast enquired into mine iniquity, and searched out my sins?Verse 7For thou knowest that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that can deliver out of thy hands?Verse 8Thy hands have formed me and made me; afterwards thou didst change thy mind, and smite me.Verse 9Remember that thou hast made me as clay, and thou dost turn me again to earth.Verse 10Hast thou not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?Verse 11And thou didst clothe me with skin and flesh, and frame me with bones and sinews.Verse 12And thou didst bestow upon me life and mercy, and thy oversight has preserved my spirit.Verse 13Having these things in thyself, I know that thou canst do all things; for nothing is impossible with thee.Verse 14And if I should sin, thou watchest me; and thou hast not cleared me from iniquity.Verse 15Or if I should be ungodly, woe is me: and if I should be righteous, I cannot lift myself up, for I am full of dishonour.Verse 16For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again thou hast changed and art terribly destroying me;Verse 17renewing against me my torture: and thou hast dealt with me in great anger, and thou hast brought trials upon me.Verse 18Why then didst thou bring me out of the womb? and why did I not die, and no eye see me,Verse 19and I become as if I had not been? for why was I not carried from the womb to the grave?Verse 20Is not the time of my life short? suffer me to rest a little,Verse 21before I go whence I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess;Verse 22to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither can any one see the life of mortals.