Job Capítulo 10

The question" Why do innocent people suffer?" Is addressed in this biblical story.

A Conservative Version

10 : 1 My soul is weary of my life. I will give free reign to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

10 : 2 I will say to God, Do not condemn me. Show me why thou contend with me.

10 : 3 Is it good to thee that thou should oppress, that thou should despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

10 : 4 Have thou eyes of flesh? Or do thou see as man sees?

10 : 5 Are thy days as the days of man, or thy years as man's days,

10 : 6 that thou inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin,

10 : 7 although thou know that I am not wicked. And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?

10 : 8 Thy hands have made me and fashioned me together round about, yet thou destroy me.

10 : 9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou have fashioned me as clay. And will thou bring me into dust again?

10 : 10 Have thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?

10 : 11 Thou have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

10 : 12 Thou have granted me life and loving kindness, and thy visitation has preserved my spirit.

10 : 13 Yet these things thou hid in thy heart. I know that this is with thee.

10 : 14 If I sin, then thou mark me. And thou will not acquit me from my iniquity.

10 : 15 If I be wicked, woe to me. And if I be righteous, yet I shall not lift up my head, being filled with shame, and looking upon my affliction.

10 : 16 And if my head exalts itself, thou hunt me as a lion. And again thou show thyself marvelous upon me.

10 : 17 Thou renew thy witnesses against me, and increase thine indignation upon me. Changes and warfare are with me.

10 : 18 Why then have thou brought me forth out of the womb? I would have given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

10 : 19 I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

10 : 20 Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little

10 : 21 before I go where I shall not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death,

10 : 22 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as midnight.