Job 10 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 “I am disgusted with my life. Let me complain freely. My bitter soul must complain. “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 simply condemn me— tell me the charge you are bringing against 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 oppressing me? Why do you reject me, the work of your own hands, while smiling on the schemes 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 Are your eyes like those of a human? Do you see things only as people see them? 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 Is your lifetime only as long as ours? Is your life so short 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 must quickly probe for my guilt 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 I am not guilty, no one can 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 “‘You formed me with your hands; you made me, yet now you completely 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 Remember that you made me from dust— will you turn me back to dust so soon? 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 You guided my conception and formed me in the womb. 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 clothed me with skin and flesh, and you knit my bones and sinews together. 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 showed me your unfailing love. My life was preserved by your care. 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 “‘Yet your real motive— your true intent— 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 was to watch me, and if I sinned, you would not forgive 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 If I am guilty, too bad for me; and even if I’m innocent, I can’t hold my head high, because I am filled with shame 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 if I hold my head high, you hunt me like a lion and display your awesome power 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 Again and again you witness against me. You pour out your growing anger on me and bring fresh 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, then, did you deliver me from my mother’s womb? Why didn’t you let me die at birth? “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 It would be as though I had never existed, going directly 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 I have only a few days left, so leave me alone, that I may have a moment of comfort 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 leave—never to return— for the land of darkness and utter 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 It is a land as dark as midnight, a land of gloom and confusion, where even the light is dark as midnight.’” 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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