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Job 10
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949
KJV
King James Version · 1611
1My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.
1My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2I will say to God, Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against me.
2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
3What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?
3Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
4Have you eyes of flesh, or do you see as man sees?
4Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
5Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his,
5Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man’s days,
6That you take note of my sin, searching after my wrongdoing,
6That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
7Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands?
7Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
8Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction.
8Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
9O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?
9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
10Was I not drained out like milk, becoming hard like cheese?
10Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
11By you I was clothed with skin and flesh, and joined together with bones and muscles.
11Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
12You have been kind to me, and your grace has been with me, and your care has kept my spirit safe.
12Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
13But you kept these things in the secret of your heart; I am certain this was in your thoughts:
13And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.
14That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin:
14If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
15That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble.
15If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
16And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me:
16For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
17That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.
17Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
18Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,
18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
19And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.
19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
20Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,
20Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,