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Job Frames His Plea to God
“I am disgusted with my life.
Let me complain freely.
My bitter soul must complain.
“I am disgusted with my life.
Let me complain freely.
My bitter soul must complain.
Job's Plea to God
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
I will say to God, ‘Don’t simply condemn me —
tell me the charge you are bringing against me.
tell me the charge you are bringing against me.
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
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?
Why do you reject me, the work of your own hands,
while smiling on the schemes of the wicked?
Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
Are your eyes like those of a human?
Do you see things only as people see them?
Do you see things only as people see them?
Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
Is your lifetime only as long as ours?
Is your life so short
Is your life so short
Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,
that you must quickly probe for my guilt
and search for my sin?
and search for my sin?
That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
Although you know I am not guilty,
no one can rescue me from your hands.
no one can rescue me from your hands.
Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
“‘You formed me with your hands; you made me,
yet now you completely destroy me.
yet now you completely destroy me.
Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
Remember that you made me from dust —
will you turn me back to dust so soon?
will you turn me back to dust so soon?
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
You clothed me with skin and flesh,
and you knit my bones and sinews together.
and you knit my bones and sinews together.
Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
You gave me life and showed me your unfailing love.
My life was preserved by your care.
My life was preserved by your care.
Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
“‘Yet your real motive —
your true intent —
your true intent —
And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.
was to watch me, and if I sinned,
you would not forgive my guilt.
you would not forgive my guilt.
If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
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.
and even if I’m innocent, I can’t hold my head high,
because I am filled with shame and misery.
If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
And if I hold my head high, you hunt me like a lion
and display your awesome power against me.
and display your awesome power against me.
For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
Again and again you witness against me.
You pour out your growing anger on me
and bring fresh armies against me.
You pour out your growing anger on me
and bring fresh armies against me.
Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
“‘Why, then, did you deliver me from my mother’s womb?
Why didn’t you let me die at birth?
Why didn’t you let me die at birth?
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
It would be as though I had never existed,
going directly from the womb to the grave.
going directly from the womb to the grave.
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
I have only a few days left, so leave me alone,
that I may have a moment of comfort
that I may have a moment of comfort
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
before I leave — never to return —
for the land of darkness and utter gloom.
for the land of darkness and utter gloom.
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;