Job 10

Modern English Version

⁸ “Your hands have shaped me and made me completely,
    yet You destroy me.
⁹ Remember, I pray,
    that You have made me as the clay.
    And would You return me to dust?
¹⁰ Have You not poured me out as milk
    and curdled me like cheese?
¹¹ You have clothed me with skin and flesh,
    and have knit me together with bones and sinews.
¹² You have granted me life and loyal love,
    and Your care has preserved my spirit.

¹³ “These things You have hid in Your heart.
    I know that this is with You.
¹⁴ If I have sinned, then You would watch me,
    and You would not acquit me from my iniquity.
¹⁵ If I am wicked, woe unto me;
    and if I am righteous, yet will I not lift up my head.
I am full of shame;
    look at my affliction!
¹⁶ For if my head is lifted up, You would hunt me like a lion,
    and again You show Yourself marvelous to me.
¹⁷ You renew Your witnesses against me
    and increase Your indignation upon me.
    Your troops come against me.

¹⁸ “Why then did You bring me forth out of the womb?
    Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
¹⁹ I should have been as though I had not been;
    I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
²⁰ Are not my days few? Stop then,
    and leave me alone that I may cheer up a little,
²¹ before I go and do not return,
    even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,
²² a land of darkness, as darkness itself;
    and of the shadow of death, without any order,
    and where the light is as thick darkness.”