# Job 10 ## Job 10:1 - [KJV] My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. - [ASV] My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. - [YLT] My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul. ### Notes on Job 10:1 - ## Job 10:2 - [KJV] I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me. - [ASV] I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; Show me wherefore thou contendest with me. - [YLT] I say unto God, 'Do not condemn me, Let me know why Thou dost strive *with* me. ### Notes on Job 10:2 - ## Job 10:3 - [KJV] *Is 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? - [ASV] Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, That thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, And shine upon the counsel of the wicked? - [YLT] Is it good for Thee that Thou dost oppress? That Thou despisest the labour of Thy hands, And on the counsel of the wicked hast shone? ### Notes on Job 10:3 - ## Job 10:4 - [KJV] Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth? - [ASV] Hast thou eyes of flesh? Or seest thou as man seeth? - [YLT] Eyes of flesh hast Thou? As man seeth -- seest Thou? ### Notes on Job 10:4 - ## Job 10:5 - [KJV] *Are* thy days as the days of man? *are* thy years as man's days, - [ASV] Are thy days as the days of man, Or thy years as man's days, - [YLT] As the days of man *are* Thy days? Thy years as the days of a man? ### Notes on Job 10:5 - ## Job 10:6 - [KJV] That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin? - [ASV] That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, And searchest after my sin, - [YLT] That Thou inquirest for mine iniquity, And for my sin seekest? ### Notes on Job 10:6 - ## Job 10:7 - [KJV] Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and *there is* none that can deliver out of thine hand. - [ASV] Although thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand? - [YLT] For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Thy hand. ### Notes on Job 10:7 - ## Job 10:8 - [KJV] Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. - [ASV] Thy hands have framed me and fashioned me Together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. - [YLT] Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up! ### Notes on Job 10:8 - ## Job 10:9 - [KJV] Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again? - [ASV] Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again? - [YLT] Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back. ### Notes on Job 10:9 - ## Job 10:10 - [KJV] Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? - [ASV] Hast thou not poured me out as milk, And curdled me like cheese? - [YLT] Dost Thou not as milk pour me out? And as cheese curdle me? ### Notes on Job 10:10 - ## Job 10:11 - [KJV] Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews. - [ASV] Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews. - [YLT] Skin and flesh Thou dost put on me, And with bones and sinews dost fence me. ### Notes on Job 10:11 - ## Job 10:12 - [KJV] Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. - [ASV] Thou hast granted me life and lovingkindness; And thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. - [YLT] Life and kindness Thou hast done with me. And Thy inspection hath preserved my spirit. ### Notes on Job 10:12 - ## Job 10:13 - [KJV] And these *things* hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this *is* with thee. - [ASV] Yet these things thou didst hide in thy heart; I know that this is with thee: - [YLT] And these Thou hast laid up in Thy heart, I have known that this *is* with Thee. ### Notes on Job 10:13 - ## Job 10:14 - [KJV] If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. - [ASV] If I sin, then thou markest me, And thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. - [YLT] If I sinned, then Thou hast observed me, And from mine iniquity dost not acquit me, ### Notes on Job 10:14 - ## Job 10:15 - [KJV] If 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; - [ASV] If I be wicked, woe unto me; And if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head; Being filled with ignominy, And looking upon mine affliction. - [YLT] If I have done wickedly -- woe to me, And righteously -- I lift not up my head, Full of shame -- then see my affliction, ### Notes on Job 10:15 - ## Job 10:16 - [KJV] For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me. - [ASV] And if *my head* exalt itself, thou huntest me as a lion; And again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me. - [YLT] And it riseth -- as a lion Thou huntest me. And Thou turnest back -- Thou shewest Thyself wonderful in me. ### Notes on Job 10:16 - ## Job 10:17 - [KJV] Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war *are* against me. - [ASV] Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, And increasest thine indignation upon me: Changes and warfare are with me. - [YLT] Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare *are* with me. ### Notes on Job 10:17 - ## Job 10:18 - [KJV] Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! - [ASV] Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me. - [YLT] And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me. ### Notes on Job 10:18 - ## Job 10:19 - [KJV] I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. - [ASV] I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. - [YLT] As I had not been, I am, From the belly to the grave I am brought, ### Notes on Job 10:19 - ## Job 10:20 - [KJV] *Are* not my days few? cease *then, and* let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, - [ASV] Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, - [YLT] Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little, ### Notes on Job 10:20 - ## Job 10:21 - [KJV] Before I go *whence* I shall not return, *even* to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; - [ASV] Before I go whence I shall not return, *Even* to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; - [YLT] Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade, ### Notes on Job 10:21 - ## Job 10:22 - [KJV] A land of darkness, as darkness *itself; and* of the shadow of death, without any order, and *where* the light *is* as darkness. - [ASV] The land dark as midnight, *The land* of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight. - [YLT] A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade -- and no order, And the shining *is* as thick darkness.' ### Notes on Job 10:22 -