Job 10

2and say to the Lord, Teach me not to be impious. Now, for what cause hast Thou thus condemned me?

3Is it agreeable to Thee that I should commit iniquity; seeing Thou hast rejected the works of Thy hands and favoured the counsel of the wicked?

4As a mortal looketh dost Thou look down? Or as a man looketh wilt Thou behold?

5Are Thy days as the days of a mortal; or Thy years, the years of a man;

6that Thou hast sought out mine iniquity, and diligently traced my sins?

8Thy hands have fashioned me and made me. After that Thou hast changed Thy mind and smitten me.

9Remember that Thou hast made me of clay, and art turning me again into mould.

10Hast Thou not churned me as milk, and curdled me as cheese;

11and clothed me with skin and flesh; and fenced me with bones and sinews,

12and granted me life and favour, and by Thy visitation preserved my spirit?

13As Thou hast these things in thyself; I know that Thou canst do all things, and that with Thee nothing is impossible.

15If I indeed am impious, woe is me.

16And if I be righteous, I cannot hold up my head, for I am full of ignominy. For I am hunted as a lion for slaughter. For turning again furiously Thou destroyest me.

17Renewing the examination against me, Thou hast exercised against me great wrath; and hast brought against me tortures.

18Why then didst Thou bring me forth from the womb? And why did I not die without an eye seeing me;

19and become as if I never had existed? Why was I not carried from the womb to the grave?

20Is not the term of my life of short duration? permit me to enjoy a little repose:

21before I go, whence I shall not return;

22to a land dark and gloomy—to a land of everlasting darkness; where there is no light—no seeing the life of mortals.