10:1 Weary in my soul, I will pour my words
with groans upon him: I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my
soul.
10:2 And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and
wherefore hast thou thus judged me?
10:3 Is 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.
10:4 Or dost thou see as a mortal sees? or wilt thou look as a man sees?
10:5 Or is thy life human, or thy years [the years] of a man,
10:6 that thou hast enquired into mine iniquity, and searched out my sins?
10:7 For thou knowest that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that
can deliver out of thy hands?
10:8 Thy hands have formed me and made me; afterwards thou didst change [thy
mind], and smite me.
10:9 Remember that thou hast made me [as] clay, and thou dost turn me again
to earth.
10:10 Hast thou not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?
10:11 And thou didst clothe me with skin and flesh, and frame me with bones
and sinews.
10:12 And thou didst bestow upon me life and mercy, and thy oversight has
preserved my spirit.
10:13 Having these things in thyself, I know that thou canst do all things;
for nothing is impossible with thee.
10:14 And if I should sin, thou watchest me; and thou hast not cleared me
from iniquity.
10:15 Or 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.
10:16 For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again thou hast changed
and art terribly destroying me;
10:17 renewing against me my torture: and thou hast dealt with me in great
anger, and thou hast brought trials upon me.
10:18 Why then didst thou bring me out of the womb? and why did I not die,
and no eye see me,
10:19 and I become as if I had not been? for why was I not carried from the
womb to the grave?
10:20 Is not the time of my life short? suffer me to rest a little,
10:21 before I go whence I shall not return, to a land of darkness and
gloominess;
10:22 to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither [can
any one] see the life of mortals. |
10:1 My soul is weary of my life; I will
leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
10:2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou
contendest with me.
10:3 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest
despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
10:4 Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
10:5 Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,
10:6 That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
10:7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver
out of thine hand.
10:8 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet
thou dost destroy me.
10:9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt
thou bring me into dust again?
10:10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
10:11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with
bones and sinews.
10:12 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath
preserved my spirit.
10:13 And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is
with thee.
10:14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine
iniquity.
10:15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not
lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
10:16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou
shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
10:17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine
indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
10:18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I
had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
10:19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been
carried from the womb to the grave.
10:20 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take
comfort a little,
10:21 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness
and the shadow of death;
10:22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death,
without any order, and where the light is as darkness. |