Job 10 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 “My soul has been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I 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 say to God, Do not condemn me, || Let me know why You strive [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 Is it good for You that You oppress? That You despise the labor of Your hands, || And shine on the counsel 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 of flesh? Do You see as man 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 as the days of man? Your years as the days of a 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 That You inquire for my iniquity, || And seek 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 For You know that I am not wicked, || And there is no deliverer 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 taken pains about me, || And they make me together all around, || And You swallow me up! 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 have made me as clay, || And You bring me back 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 Do You not pour me out as milk? And curdle me as 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 Skin and flesh You put on me, || And fence me 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 Life and kindness You have done with me. And Your inspection 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 And these You have laid up in Your heart, I have known that this [is] with You. 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 sinned, then You have observed me, || And do not acquit me 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 If I have done wickedly—woe to me, || And righteously—I do not lift up my head, || Full of shame—then see 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 And it rises—as a lion You hunt me. And You turn back—You show Yourself wonderful in 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 renew Your witnesses against me, and multiply Your anger with me, || Changes and warfare [are] with 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 And why from the womb || Have You brought me forth? I expire, and the eye does not 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 am as [if] I had not been, || I am brought from the belly 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 Are my days not few? Cease then, and put from me, || And I brighten up 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, and do not return, || To a land of darkness and death-shade, 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 obscurity as thick darkness, || Death-shade—and no order, || And the shining [is] as thick 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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