Job 10 Geneva Bible (1599)
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- Original 16th-century spelling.
1 My soule is cut off though I liue: I wil leaue my complaint vpon my selfe, and wil speake in the bitternesse of my soule.
1 “My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2 I will say vnto God, Condemne mee not: shew me, wherefore thou contendest with mee.
2 I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
3 Thinkest thou it good to oppresse me, and to cast off the labour of thine handes, and to fauour the counsel of the wicked?
3 Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?
4 Hast thou carnall eyes? or doest thou see as man seeth?
4 Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?
5 Are thy dayes as mans dayes? or thy yeres, as the time of man,
5 Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man’s years,
6 That thou inquirest of mine iniquitie, and searchest out my sinne?
6 that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?
7 Thou knowest that I can not do wickedly: for none can deliuer me out of thine hand.
7 Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.
8 Thine handes haue made me, and fashioned mee wholy rounde about, and wilt thou destroy me?
8 “‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.
9 Remember, I pray thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and wilt thou bring me into dust againe?
9 Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
10 Hast thou not powred me out as milke? and turned me to cruds like cheese?
10 Haven’t you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?
11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and ioyned me together with bones and sinewes.
11 You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
12 Thou hast giuen me life, and grace: and thy visitation hath preserued my spirit.
12 You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.
13 Though thou hast hid these things in thine heart, yet I knowe that it is so with thee.
13 Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:
14 If I haue sinned, then thou wilt streightly looke vnto me, and wilt not holde mee giltlesse of mine iniquitie.
14 if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.
15 If I haue done wickedly, wo vnto me: if I haue done righteously, I will not lift vp mine head, being full of confusion, because I see mine affliction.
15 If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.
16 But let it increase: hunt thou me as a lyon: returne and shew thy selfe marueilous vpon me.
16 If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.
17 Thou renuest thy plagues against me, and thou increasest thy wrath against me: changes and armies of sorowes are against me.
17 You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.
18 Wherfore then hast thou brought me out of the wombe? Oh that I had perished, and that none eye had seene me!
18 “‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
19 And that I were as I had not bene, but brought from the wombe to the graue!
19 I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
20 Are not my dayes fewe? let him cease, and leaue off from me, that I may take a litle comfort,
20 Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
21 Before I goe and shall not returne, euen to the land of darkenesse and shadow of death:
21 before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
22 Into a land, I say, darke as darknes it selfe, and into the shadow of death, where is none order, but the light is there as darkenesse.
22 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’”
Cross references (22)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 7:11; 1 Kings 19:4; Numbers 11:15; Jonah 4:8; Job 9:21
- 2 Psalm 139:23–24; Job 9:29; Psalm 143:2; Psalm 25:7; Psalm 6:1–4
- 3 Isaiah 64:8; Job 14:15; Psalm 138:8; Jeremiah 12:1–3; Job 8:20
- 4 1 Samuel 16:7; Job 9:32; Luke 16:15; Revelation 1:14
- 5 2 Peter 3:8; Psalm 90:2–4; Psalm 102:24–27; Hebrews 1:12; Job 36:26
- 6 Job 14:16; Psalm 10:15; Psalm 44:21; Zephaniah 1:12; Jeremiah 2:34
- 7 Deuteronomy 32:39; Psalm 139:1–2; John 10:28–30; Daniel 3:15; Job 42:7
- 8 Psalm 119:73; Job 10:3; Isaiah 43:7; Jeremiah 18:3–10; Genesis 6:6–7
- 9 Genesis 2:7; Isaiah 64:8; Genesis 3:19; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Isaiah 45:9
- 10 Psalm 139:14–16
- 11 Ezekiel 37:4–8; Ephesians 4:16; Job 40:17–18; 2 Corinthians 5:2–3
- 12 Acts 17:28; Job 33:4; Acts 17:25; Matthew 6:25; Genesis 19:19
- 13 Job 23:13; Deuteronomy 32:39; Isaiah 45:7; Isaiah 46:9–11; Ecclesiastes 8:6–7
- 14 Job 7:21; Psalm 130:3; Exodus 34:7; Job 13:26–27; Numbers 14:18
- 15 Isaiah 3:11; Job 9:15; Job 9:20–21; Job 10:7; Malachi 3:18
- 16 Isaiah 38:13; Lamentations 3:10; Job 5:9; Hosea 13:7–8; Amos 3:8
- 17 Job 16:8; Ruth 1:21; Job 16:11–16; Job 19:6–11; Jeremiah 48:11
- 18 Jeremiah 20:14–18; Job 14:10; Job 11:20; Job 3:10–11; Jeremiah 15:10
- 19 Psalm 58:8
- 20 Job 14:1; Psalm 39:13; Psalm 39:5; Job 9:25–26; Job 7:6–7
- 21 Job 3:5; Job 16:22; 2 Samuel 12:23; Job 7:8–10; 2 Samuel 14:14
- 22 Psalm 88:12; Jeremiah 13:16; Job 3:5; Psalm 44:19; Job 38:17
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Who knitted us with sinews and bones, and clothed us with skin and flesh, and, as soon as the child was born, brought streams of milk out of the breasts?
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