Job 10 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 |I hate my life. I will freely express my complaint. I will speak as bitterly as I feel. “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, 'Don't condemn me. Let me know why you are quarreling with me. 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 What do you gain by mistreating me, by rejecting the work of your hands while you favor the plans of the wicked? 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 actually have human eyes? Do you see as a mortal sees? 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 like a mortal's days? Are your years like a human's years? 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 Is that why you look for guilt in me and search for sin in me? that you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin, that you must search out my faults and probe after my sin—
7 You know I'm not guilty, but there is no one to rescue me from your hands. 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 formed me and made every part of me, then you turned to destroy me. 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 Please remember that you made me out of clay and that you will return me to the dust again. 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 Didn't you pour me out like milk and curdle 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 Didn't you dress me in skin and flesh and weave me together with bones and tendons? 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 gave me life and mercy. Your watchfulness 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 But in your heart you hid these things. I know this is what you did. 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 sin, you watch me and will not free me from my guilt. 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 How terrible it will be for me if I'm guilty! Even if I'm righteous, I dare not lift up my head. I am filled with disgrace while I look on my 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 Like a proud, ferocious lion you hunt me down. You keep working your miracles against me. 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 keep finding new witnesses against me. You keep increasing your anger toward me. You keep bringing new armies against 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 take me out of the womb? I wish I had breathed my last breath before anyone had laid eyes on 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 Then it would be as if I had never existed, as if I had been carried 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 | 'Isn't my life short enough? So stop [this], and leave me alone. Let me smile 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 go away to a land of darkness and gloom, 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 to a dismal land of long shadows and confusion where light is as bright as darkness. I'll never return.' | 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.”
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