Job 10 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 Weary in my soul, I will pour my words with groans upon him: I will speak being straitened 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 And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and wherefore hast thou thus judged 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 before thee if I be unrighteous? for thou hast disowned the work of thy hands, and attended to the counsel of the ungodly. 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 Or dost thou see as a mortal sees? or wilt thou look as a 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 Or is thy life human, or thy years the years 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 thou hast enquired into mine iniquity, and searched out my sins? 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 thou knowest that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that can deliver out of thy 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 Thy hands have formed me and made me; afterwards thou didst change thy mind , and smite 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 thou hast made me as clay, and thou dost turn me again to earth. 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 Hast thou not poured me out 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 And thou didst clothe me with skin and flesh, and frame 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 And thou didst bestow upon me life and mercy, and thy oversight 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 Having these things in thyself, I know that thou canst do all things; for nothing is impossible with thee. 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 And if I should sin, thou watchest me; and thou hast not cleared me from 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 Or if I should be ungodly, woe is me: and if I should be righteous, I cannot lift myself up, for I am full of dishonour. 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 For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again thou hast changed and art terribly destroying 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 renewing against me my torture: and thou hast dealt with me in great anger, and thou hast brought trials upon 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 didst thou bring me out of the womb? and why did I not die, and no eye 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 and I become as if I had not been? for why was I not 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 Is not the time of my life short? suffer me to rest 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 whence I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess; 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 land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither can any one see the life of mortals. 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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