KJ3 Literal Translation
Job 10
1 Job complains and reasons with Jehovah about his afflictions. 18 He complains of life, and craves a little ease before death.
1¶ My soul loathes my life; I will leave my complaint on myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2I will say to God, Do not condemn me; make me know on what ground You contend with me.
3Is it good to You that You should press on me, that You should despise the work of Your palms, and You shine on the counsel of the wicked ones?
4Have You eyes of flesh; or do You see as a man sees?
5Are Your days as the days of man? Or your years like the days of man,
6that You seek out my iniquity, and search for my sin?
7It is on Your knowing that I am not a wicked one; and there is no one delivering out of Your hand.
8¶ Your hands have made me and shaped me together round about, yet You engulf me.
9Remember, I pray, that You have formed me as clay; and will You bring me to dust again?
10Did You not pour me out like milk; yea, curdled me like cheese?
11You clothed me with skin and flesh, and You knitted me with bones and sinews.
12You have made me have life and favor, and Your providence has guarded my spirit.
13And these You have hidden in Your heart; I know that this was with You.
14¶ If I sin, even You watch me; and You will not acquit me from my guilt.
15If I am wrong, woe to me! And if I am being righteous, I will not lift up my head, being filled with shame and seeing my pain.
16And if if rise, You would hunt me as a lion; and again You show Yourself wonderful in me.
17You renew Your witnesses against me, and increase Your anger with me; changes and warfare are with me.
18And why did You bring me from the womb? I would have died, and no eye seen me.
19I would have been as though I had never been, carried from the womb to the grave.
20Are not my days few? Then cease and let me alone, that I may take a little comfort
21before I go; and I shall not return, to the land of darkness, and the shadow of death;
22a land of obscurity, the darkness of the shadow of death, and without any order; even the shining is as utter darkness.
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