Job · Young's Literal Translation
Job 10 Young's Literal Translation
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1 My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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 say unto God, 'Do not condemn me, Let me know why Thou dost strive [with] me.
2 I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
3 Is it good for Thee that Thou dost oppress? That Thou despisest the labour of Thy hands, And on the counsel of the wicked hast shone?
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 Eyes of flesh hast Thou? As man seeth — seest Thou?
4 Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?
5 As the days of man [are] Thy days? Thy years as the days of a man?
5 Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man’s years,
6 That Thou inquirest for mine iniquity, And for my sin seekest?
6 that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?
7 For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Thy hand.
7 Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.
8 Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up!
8 “‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.
9 Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back.
9 Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
10 Dost Thou not as milk pour me out? And as cheese curdle me?
10 Haven’t you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?
11 Skin and flesh Thou dost put on me, And with bones and sinews dost fence me.
11 You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
12 Life and kindness Thou hast done with me. And Thy inspection hath preserved my spirit.
12 You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.
13 And these Thou hast laid up in Thy heart, I have known that this [is] with Thee.
13 Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:
14 If I sinned, then Thou hast observed me, And from mine iniquity dost not acquit me,
14 if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.
15 If I have done wickedly — woe to me, And righteously — I lift not up my head, Full of shame — then see my 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 And it riseth — as a lion Thou huntest me. And Thou turnest back — Thou shewest Thyself wonderful in me.
16 If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.
17 Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare [are] with me.
17 You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.
18 And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see 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 As I had not been, I am, From the belly to the grave I am brought,
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 days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,
20 Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
21 Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,
21 before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
22 A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade — and no order, And the shining [is] as thick darkness.'
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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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
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?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)