Job 10
1My nefesh is sick of my life; 1 I will give free rein to my si'akh (complaint); 1 I will speak in the mar (bitterness) of my nefesh. 1
2I will say unto Eloah, Do not condemn me; 1 show me what charge Thou dost contend with me. 1
3Is it hatov (pleasing) unto Thee that Thou shouldest oppress, 1 that Thou shouldest reject the work of Thine hands, 1 and shine [favor] upon the etzah (scheme) of the resha'im? 1
4Hast Thou eyes of basar? 1 Or seest Thou as enosh seeth? 1
5Are Thy yamim like the yamim of enosh? 1 Are Thy years like the days of gever (man), 1
6That Thou seekest after mine avon, 1 and searchest after my chattat? 1
7Though Thou has da'as that I am not a resha, 1 and there is none that can deliver out of Thine yad, 1
8Thine yadayim have formed me and altogether round about have fashioned me; 1 yet Thou hast now swallowed me. 1
9Remember, now, that Thou hast molded me like the chomer (clay), 1 and wilt Thou turn me into aphar again? 1
10Hast Thou not poured me out like cholov, 1 and curdled me like gvinah (cheese)? 1
11Thou hast clothed me with ohr and basar, 1 and hast knitted me together with atzmot and sinews. 1
12Thou hast granted me chayyim and chesed, 1 and Thy visitation hath been shomer over my ruach. 1
13And these things hast Thou hid in Thine lev; 1 I have da'as that this was in Thy mind. 1
14If I sin, then Thou art shomer over me, 1 and Thou wilt not let my avon go unpunished. 1
15If I am guilty, woe unto me; 1 even if I be tzaddik (innocent), yet will I not lift up my head, 1 being full of kalon (shame) and conscious of my oni (misery), 1
16For if my head is held high, Thou stalkest me like a fierce lion, 1 and ever Thou displayest Thy awesome power against me. 1
17Thou bringest Thy fresh edim (witnesses) against me, 1 and increasest Thine hot indignation toward me; 1 in waves Thy tzava troop against me. 1
18Why then hast Thou brought me forth out of the rechem (womb)? 1 Oh that I had expired, and no eye had seen me! 1
19I should have been as though I had never been; 1 I should have been carried from the beten straight to the kever. 1
20Are not my yamim few? 1 Then cease, and let me alone, that I may take a little cheer 1
21Before I go from where I shall not return, 1 even to the Eretz Choshech V'Tzalmavet, 1
22An eretz of darkness, like darkness itself; 1 and of tzalmavet, no sedarim (order), 1 where the light is like darkness.