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Job
Chapter
10
{Chapters
4-14: The First Debate}
{Chapters
8-10: Debate with Bildad - Job's Response Continues}
{Job
Still in Self -Pity and Failing}
1~~My
soul {nephesh} loathes/'is weary of' my life {chay},
therefore
I will give free reign to my complaint.
I will speak out in the bitterness of my soul.
2``I
would say unto God/'Elowahh,
'Do
not condemn me.
Show
me why You contend with me.'
3``Is
it good to You
that
You should oppress (?) . . .
that
you should despise the work of Your hands,
and
shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
4``Have You eyes of flesh?
Or do You see as a man sees?
5``Are
Your days as the days of man?
Are
Your years as man's days?
6``That
You intensively ask after my iniquity,
and
search after my sin?
7~~You
{God} know that I am not guilty
and
there is no one else who can deliver me out of Your hands.
{Verses
8-17: some Characteristics of Evidence Testing}
8~~Your
hands shaped me {Job} and made me
will
you now turn and destroy me?
9~~Remember
{God},please/' I beg you',
that
You molded me like clay;
will
You now turn me to dust again?
10~~Did
you not pour me out like milk,
and
curdled me like cheese?
11~~And
cloth me with skin and flesh,
and
knit me together with bones and sinews?
12~~You
gave me life and showed me kindness,
and
in Your providence, you watched over my spirit/life {ruwach}.
13~~But
this is what You concealed in Your heart/'right lobe'
and
I know that this is 'in your mind'/'with You'.
14~~If
I sin, You would be watching me,
and
You would not let my sin go unpunished.
15~~If I {Job} am guilty/wicked, woe unto me.
Even
if I am innocent/righteous,
I
can not lift my head
for
I am full of shame
and
drown in my affliction.
16~~It keeps on growing.
You hunted me as a fierce lion.
And again You showed Yourself most extraordinary/marvelous.
17``You
intensively renew Your witnesses against me,
and
increase Your indignation/vexation upon me.
Changes
{from all good to all bad}
and
war are against me.
18~~Why then have You brought me out of the womb?
I wish that I had died {gava`}, before any eye had seen me!
19``It
should have been as though I {Job}
had
not been carried {to term}.
I should have been carried from the womb {straight} to the grave.
20`` Are not my days few?
Ceasing,
stop
{chadal chadal - doubling is very strong in the Hebrew}
and let me alone {shiyth shiyth - also very strong},
that
I may 'be caused to smile'/'be caused to take comfort'
a
little, 21``
before
I go where I shall not return . . .
even
to the land of darkness and the shadow of death.
22``A land of darkness . . . like darkness itself.
And
of the shadow of death, without any order,
and
where the light is like darkness.
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