Job - Chapter 10 | Good News Translation

  • 1. I am tired of living. Listen to my bitter complaint.
  • 2. Don't condemn me, God. Tell me! What is the charge against me?
  • 3. Is it right for you to be so cruel? To despise what you yourself have made? And then to smile on the schemes of wicked people?
  • 4. Do you see things as we do?
  • 5. Is your life as short as ours?
  • 6. Then why do you track down all my sins and hunt down every fault I have?
  • 7. You know that I am not guilty, that no one can save me from you.
  • 8. Your hands formed and shaped me, and now those same hands destroy me.
  • 9. Remember that you made me from clay; are you going to crush me back to dust?
  • 10. You gave my father strength to beget me; you made me grow in my mother's womb.
  • 11. You formed my body with bones and sinews and covered the bones with muscles and skin.
  • 12. You have given me life and constant love, and your care has kept me alive.
  • 13. But now I know that all that time you were secretly planning to harm me.
  • 14. You were watching to see if I would sin, so that you could refuse to forgive me.
  • 15. As soon as I sin, I'm in trouble with you, but when I do right, I get no credit. I am miserable and covered with shame.
  • 16. If I have any success at all, you hunt me down like a lion; to hurt me you even work miracles.
  • 17. You always have some witness against me; your anger toward me grows and grows; you always plan some new attack.
  • 18. Why, God, did you let me be born? I should have died before anyone saw me.
  • 19. To go from the womb straight to the grave would have been as good as never existing.
  • 20. Isn't my life almost over? Leave me alone! Let me enjoy the time I have left.
  • 21. I am going soon and will never come back--- going to a land that is dark and gloomy,
  • 22. a land of darkness, shadows, and confusion, where the light itself is darkness.
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