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Job Continues: A Plea to God
“I loathe my life;
I will give free utterance to my complaint;
I will 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.
Job's Plea to God
My soul is weary of my life: I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
My soul is weary of my life: I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
I will say to God, Do not condemn me;
let me know why you contend against me.
let me know why you contend against me.
I will say unto +God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou strivest with me.
Does it seem good to you to oppress,
to despise the work of your hands
and favor the designs of the wicked?
to despise the work of your hands
and favor the designs of the wicked?
Doth it please thee to oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
Have you eyes of flesh?
Do you see as man sees?
Do you see as man sees?
Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
Are your days as the days of man,
or your years as a man’s years,
or your years as a man’s years,
Are thy days as the days of a mortal? are thy years as a man's days,
that you seek out my iniquity
and search for my sin,
and search for my sin,
That thou searchest after mine iniquity, and inquirest into my sin;
although you know that I am not guilty,
and there is none to deliver out of your hand?
and there is none to deliver out of your hand?
Since thou knowest that I am not wicked, and that there is none that delivereth out of thy hand?
Your hands fashioned and made me,
and now you have destroyed me altogether.
and now you have destroyed me altogether.
Thy hands have bound me together and made me as one, round about; yet dost thou swallow me up!
Remember that you have made me like clay;
and will you return me to the dust?
and will you return me to the dust?
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as clay, and wilt bring me into dust again.
Did you not pour me out like milk
and curdle me like cheese?
and curdle me like cheese?
Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
You clothed me with skin and flesh,
and knit me together with bones and sinews.
and knit me together with bones and sinews.
Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews;
You have granted me life and steadfast love,
and your care has preserved my spirit.
and your care has preserved my spirit.
Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy care hath preserved my spirit;
Yet these things you hid in your heart;
I know that this was your purpose.
I know that this was your purpose.
And these things didst thou hide in thy heart; I know that this was with thee.
If I sin, you watch me
and do not acquit me of my iniquity.
and do not acquit me of my iniquity.
If I sinned, thou wouldest mark me, and thou wouldest not acquit me of mine iniquity.
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 in the right, I cannot lift up my head,
for I am filled with disgrace
and look on my affliction.
If I were wicked, woe unto me! and righteous, I will not lift up my head, being [so] full of shame, and beholding mine affliction; --
And it increaseth: thou huntest me as a fierce lion; and ever again thou shewest thy marvellous power upon me.
You renew your witnesses against me
and increase your vexation toward me;
you bring fresh troops against me.
and increase your vexation toward me;
you bring fresh troops against me.
Thou renewest thy witnesses before me and increasest thy displeasure against me; successions [of evil] and a time of toil are with me.
“Why did you bring me out from the womb?
Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
And wherefore didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? I had expired, and no eye had seen me.
and were as though I had not been,
carried from the womb to the grave.
carried from the womb to the grave.
I should be as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
Are not my days few?
Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer
Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer
Are not my days few? cease then and let me alone, that I may revive a little,
before I go — and I shall not return —
to the land of darkness and deep shadow,
to the land of darkness and deep shadow,
Before I go, and never to return, -- to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;