> [[job-09|← Previous]] | [[job-00|TOC]] | [[job-11|Next →]] --- # Job, Chapter 10 ## Chapter 10 I will give myself up to complaint; I will speak from the bitterness of my soul. 2 I will say to God: Do not put me in the wrong! ^job-10-2 Let me know why you oppose me. 3 Is it a pleasure for you to oppress, ^job-10-3 to spurn the work of your hands, and shine on the plan of the wicked? 4 Have you eyes of flesh? ^job-10-4 Do you see as mortals see? 5 Are your days like the days of a mortal, ^job-10-5 and are your years like a human lifetime, 6 That you seek for guilt in me ^job-10-6 and search after my sins, 7 Even though you know that I am not wicked, ^job-10-7 and that none can deliver me out of your hand? 8 Your hands have formed me and fashioned me; ^job-10-8 will you then turn and destroy me? 9 Oh, remember that you fashioned me from clay! ^job-10-9 Will you then bring me down to dust again? 10 Did you not pour me out like milk, ^job-10-10 and thicken me like cheese? 11 With skin and flesh you clothed me, ^job-10-11 with bones and sinews knit me together. 12 Life and love you granted me, ^job-10-12 and your providence has preserved my spirit. 13 Yet these things you have hidden in your heart; ^job-10-13 I know they are your purpose: 14 If I should sin, you would keep a watch on me, ^job-10-14 and from my guilt you would not absolve me. 15 If I should be wicked, alas for me! ^job-10-15 even if righteous, I dare not hold up my head, sated with shame, drenched in affliction! 16 Should it lift up, you hunt me like a lion: ^job-10-16 repeatedly you show your wondrous power against me, 17 You renew your attack upon me ^job-10-17 and multiply your harassment of me; in waves your troops come against me. 18 Why then did you bring me forth from the womb? ^job-10-18 I should have died and no eye have seen me. 19 I should be as though I had never lived; ^job-10-19 I should have been taken from the womb to the grave. 20 Are not my days few? Stop! ^job-10-20 Let me alone, that I may recover a little 21 Before I go whence I shall not return, ^job-10-21 to the land of darkness and of gloom, 22 The dark, disordered land ^job-10-22 where darkness is the only light. --- \* (10:1) I loathe my life: these words complete the thought of [9:35]. \* (10:3] – [12) These lines are a delicate mixture of sarcasm and prayer; Job “reminds” God, challenging the divine providence. Note the piteous tone of the final request in vv. [20] – [22]. \* (10:17) Attack: or “witnesses,” continuing the metaphor of lawsuit used in these chapters. --- a. (10:1) [Jb 9:21]. b. (10:5) [Jb 36:26]. c. (10:7) [Jb 2:3], [9]; [Dt 32:39]; [Wis 16:15]. d. (10:9) [Jb 4:19]; [33:6]; [Gn 2:7]; [3:19]; [Ps 146:4]. e. (10:18) [Jb 3:3], [11]. f. (10:21) [Jb 7:9] – [10]; [16:22]. --- _New American Bible, revised edition_ (2010, 1991, 1986, 1970) Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, D.C. > [[job-09|← Previous]] | [[job-00|TOC]] | [[job-11|Next →]]