Job 10 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 |I am disgusted with living, so I'm going to talk about my complaint freely. I'll speak out from 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'll say to God, 'Don't condemn me! Let me know why you are fighting 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 Does it delight you to oppress or despise what you have made, while you smile at 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 have eyes made of flesh? Can you look at things as humans do? 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 Can you live only as long as a human being? Or live the years of a mortal man? 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 |'For you seek out my iniquity and search for 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 Although you know that I'm not guilty, there's no one to deliver me from you! 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 and fashioned me, but then you have destroyed me all at once on all sides. 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've made me like clay and you'll return 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 Didn't you pour me out like milk and let me congeal 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 covered me with skin and flesh, weaving me together with bones and sinews. 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 life and gracious love to me; your providential care 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 you've hidden these things in your heart— I know this was your purpose: 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 won't acquit me for 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 |'Woe to me if I'm guilty! If I'm innocent, I cannot lift my head, because I am filled with disgrace. Look at my affliction! 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 But if I do lift up my head, you will hunt me like a lion! You will perform miracles in order to fight 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 have brought new witnesses against me, you're even more angry with me— you've brought fresh troops to attack 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 So why did you bring me out from the womb? I wish I had died, before anyone had seen 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 as if I had never existed; carried from the womb to the grave. 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 My days are so few, aren't they? So leave me alone, then, so I can 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, never to return, leaving for the land of deep darkness and shadow. 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 It's a gloomy land, like deepest darkness; where there's no order, and where even the brightness is like darkness.'| 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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