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10 Mi alma es cortada en mi vida; por tanto soltaré mi queja sobre mí, y hablaré con amargura de mi alma.

Diré a Dios: No me condenes; hazme entender por qué pleiteas conmigo.

¿Te parece bien que oprimas, y que deseches la obra de tus manos, y que resplandezcas sobre el consejo de los impíos?

¿Tienes tú ojos de carne? ¿Ves tú como ve el hombre?

¿Son tus días como los días del hombre, o tus años como los tiempos humanos,

para que inquieras mi iniquidad, y busques mi pecado,

sobre saber tú que no soy impío, y que no hay quien de tu mano me libre?

Tus manos me formaron y me compusieron todo en contorno, ¿y así me deshaces?

Acuérdate ahora que como a lodo me diste forma; ¿y en polvo me has de volver?

10 ¿No me fundiste como leche, y como un queso me cuajaste?

11 Me vestiste de piel y carne, y me cubriste de huesos y nervios.

12 Vida y misericordia me concediste, y tu visitación guardó mi espíritu.

13 Y estas cosas tienes guardadas en tu corazón; yo sé que esto está cerca de ti.

14 Si pequé, ¿me acecharás, y no me limpiarás de mi iniquidad?

15 Si fuere malo, ¡ay de mí! Y si fuere justo, no levantaré mi cabeza, estando hastiado de deshonra, y de verme afligido.

16 Y vas creciendo, cazándome como león; tornando y haciendo en mí maravillas.

17 Renovando tus plagas contra mí, y aumentando conmigo tu furor, haciendo subir sobre mí ejércitos.

18 ¿Por qué me sacaste del vientre? Habría yo muerto, y no me vieran ojos.

19 Fuera, como si nunca hubiera sido, llevado desde el vientre a la sepultura.

20 ¿No son mis días poca cosa? Cesa pues, y déjame, para que me esfuerce un poco.

21 Antes que vaya para no volver, a la tierra de tinieblas y de sombra de muerte;

22 tierra de oscuridad, y tenebrosa sombra de muerte, donde no hay orden, y que resplandece como la misma oscuridad.

10 With all my heart I am weary of my life,
so I will express my complaint freely.
I will speak from the bitterness of my heart.
I will say this to God: Do not condemn me.
Tell me why you are pressing charges against me.
Is it good that you are oppressing me,
that you are rejecting what your hands have made,
at the same time that you favor the plans of the wicked?
Do you have eyes made of flesh?
Do you see things the way a man does?
Are your days like a man’s days?
Are your years like the life span of a human?

You do, in fact, investigate guilt,
and you do search carefully for sin.
Although you know that I am not guilty,
there is no one who can rescue me from your hand.

Your hands shaped me and made me,
but now you swallow me up completely.
Please remember that it was you who shaped me like a clay pot.
Will you now return me to the dust?
10 Aren’t you the one who poured me out like milk,
who thickened me like a curd of cheese?
11 You clothed me with skin and flesh.
You wove me together with bones and tendons.
12 You provided me with life and mercy,
and your watchful care has guarded my spirit.

13 You hid these things in your heart,
but I know that this is what you had in mind:
14 If I sinned and you were watching me,
you would not acquit me of my guilt.
15 If I was wicked, I would be cursed!
But even if I was righteous, I could not lift up my head,
because I am filled with shame and aware of[a] my misery.
16 If I lift myself up,[b] you hunt me down like a lion.
You turn and display amazing power against me.
17 You produce new witnesses to oppose me,
and you become more irritated with me.
You attack me with reinforcements.
18 Why, then, did you bring me out from the womb?
I wish I had died. Then no eye would have seen me.
19 I wish I had been like someone who never lived.
Then I would have been carried from the womb to the tomb.
20 Don’t I have only a few days?
Stop! Leave me alone, so that I can be happy for a short time,
21 before I walk into the land of darkness
and into the shadow of death, never to return,
22 into the land of gloom, as dark as the shadow of death,
into the land of chaos, where even light is darkness.

Footnotes

  1. Job 10:15 Or drenched with
  2. Job 10:16 The translation follows the Targum and Greek text in reading a first person verb. The Hebrew has a third person verb.