Job 10.8
English standard version

¹ I loathe my life;
I will give free utterance to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
² I will say to God, Do not condemn me;
let me know why you contend against me.
³ Does it seem good to you to oppress,
to despise the work of your hands
and favor the designs of the wicked?
⁴ Have you eyes of flesh?
Do you see as man sees?
⁵ Are your days as the days of man,
or your years as a man's years,
⁶ that you seek out my iniquity
and search for my sin,
⁷ although you know that I am not guilty,
and there is none to deliver out of your hand?
⁸ Your hands fashioned and made me,
and now you have destroyed me altogether.
⁹ Remember that you have made me like clay;
and will you return me to the dust?
¹⁰ Did you not pour me out like milk
and curdle me like cheese?
¹¹ You clothed me with skin and flesh,
and knit me together with bones and sinews.
¹² You have granted me life and steadfast love,
and your care has preserved my spirit.
¹³ Yet these things you hid in your heart;
I know that this was your purpose.
¹⁴ If I sin, you watch me
and do not acquit me of my iniquity.
¹⁵ If I am guilty, woe to me!
If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head,
for I am filled with disgrace
and look on my affliction.
¹⁶ And were my head lifted up, you would hunt me like a lion
and again work wonders against me.
¹⁷ You renew your witnesses against me
and increase your vexation toward me;
you bring fresh troops against me.
¹⁸ Why did you bring me out from the womb?
Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
¹⁹ and were as though I had not been,
carried from the womb to the grave.
²⁰ Are not my days few?
Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer
²¹ before I go&emdash;and I shall not return&emdash;
to the land of darkness and deep shadow,
²² the land of gloom like thick darkness,
like deep shadow without any order,
where light is as thick darkness.