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Job 10
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Chapter 10
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Since I have lost all taste for life, I will give free rein to my complaints; I shall let my embittered soul speak out.
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I shall say to God, ‘Do not condemn me, but tell me the reason for your assault.
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Is it right for you to injure me, cheapening the work of your own hands and abetting the schemes of the wicked?
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Have you got human eyes, do you see as mankind sees?
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Is your life mortal like man’s, do your years pass as men’s days pass?
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You, who inquire into my fault, and investigate my sins,
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you know very well that I am innocent, and that no one can rescue me from your hand.
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Your own hands shaped me, modelled me; and would you now have second thoughts and destroy me?
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You modelled me remember, as clay is modelled, and would you reduce me now to dust?
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Did you not pour me out like milk, and curdle me then like cheese;[*a]
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clothe me with skin and flesh, and weave me of bone and sinew?
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And then you endowed me with life, watched each breath of mine with tender care.
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Yet, after all, you were dissembling; biding your time, I know,
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to mark if I should sin and to let no fault of mine go uncensured.
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Woe to me, if I am guilty if I am innocent, I dare not lift my head, so wholly abject, so drunk with pain am I.
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And if I make a stand, like a lion you hunt me down, adding to the tale of your triumphs.
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You attack, and attack me again, with stroke on stroke of your fury, relentlessly your fresh troops assail me.
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‘Why did you bring me out of the womb? I should have perished then, unseen by any eye,
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a being that had never been, to be carried from womb to grave.
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The days of my life are few enough: turn your eyes away, leave me a little joy,
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before I go to the place of no return, the land of murk and deep shadow,
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where dimness and disorder hold sway, and light itself is like the dead of night.’
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