Job 10 Parallel Bible Translations

Job 10 ▼
swipe to see more →
CPDV
Catholic Public Domain Version
ESV
English Standard Version
NIV
New International Version
+Add
1 My soul is weary of my life. I will release my words against myself. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. “I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. “I loathe my very life; therefore I will give free rein to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.
2 I will say to God: Do not be willing to condemn me. Reveal to me why you judge me this way. I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me. I say to God: Do not declare me guilty, but tell me what charges you have against me.
3 Does it seem good to you, if you find fault with me and oppress me, the work of your own hands, and assist the counsel of the impious? Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked? Does it please you to oppress me, to spurn the work of your hands, while you smile on the plans of the wicked?
4 Do you have bodily eyes? Or, just as man sees, will you see? Have you eyes of flesh? Do you see as man sees? Do you have eyes of flesh? Do you see as a mortal sees?
5 Are your days just like the days of man, and are your years as the times of humans, Are your days as the days of man, or your years as a man’s years, Are your days like those of a mortal or your years like those of a strong man,
6 so that you would inquire about my iniquity and examine my sin? that you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin, that you must search out my faults and probe after my sin—
7 And you know that I have done nothing impious, yet there is no one who can deliver from your hand. although you know that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of your hand? though you know that I am not guilty and that no one can rescue me from your hand?
8 Your hands have made me and formed me all around, and, in this way, do you suddenly throw me away? Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether. “Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me?
9 Remember, I ask you, that you have fashioned me like clay, and you will reduce me to dust. Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust? Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again?
10 Have you not extracted me like milk and curdled me like cheese? Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese? Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese,
11 You have clothed me with skin and flesh. You have put me together with bones and nerves. You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. clothe me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews?
12 You have assigned to me life and mercy, and your visitation has preserved my spirit. You have granted me life and steadfast love, and your care has preserved my spirit. You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit.
13 Though you may conceal this in your heart, yet I know that you remember everything. Yet these things you hid in your heart; I know that this was your purpose. “But this is what you concealed in your heart, and I know that this was in your mind:
14 If I have sinned, and you have spared me for an hour, why do you not endure me to be clean from my iniquity? If I sin, you watch me and do not acquit me of my iniquity. If I sinned, you would be watching me and would not let my offense go unpunished.
15 And if I should be impious, woe to me, and if I should be just, I will not lift up my head, being drenched with affliction and misery. If I am guilty, woe to me! If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look on my affliction. If I am guilty—woe to me! Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head, for I am full of shame and drowned in my affliction.
16 And because of pride, you will seize me like a lioness, and having returned, you torment me to an extraordinary degree. And were my head lifted up, you would hunt me like a lion and again work wonders against me. If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lion and again display your awesome power against me.
17 You renew your testimony against me, and you multiply your wrath against me, and these punishments make war within me. You renew your witnesses against me and increase your vexation toward me; you bring fresh troops against me. You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger toward me; your forces come against me wave upon wave.
18 Why did you lead me out of the womb? If only I had been consumed, so that no eye would ever see me! “Why did you bring me out from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me “Why then did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died before any eye saw me.
19 I should have been as if I had not been: transferred from the womb to the tomb. and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave. If only I had never come into being, or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!
20 Will not my few days be completed soon? Release me, therefore, so that I may lament my sorrows a little, Are not my days few? Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer Are not my few days almost over? Turn away from me so I can have a moment’s joy
21 before I depart and return no more to a land that is dark and covered with the fog of death, before I go—and I shall not return— to the land of darkness and deep shadow, before I go to the place of no return, to the land of gloom and utter darkness,
22 a land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and nothing else but everlasting horror, dwells. the land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is as thick darkness.” to the land of deepest night, of utter darkness and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
Previous chapter
Top of Page
Top of Page