Job 10  Tree of Life Version

⁸ “Your hands molded and fashioned me,
    will You now destroy me completely?
⁹ Remember You fashioned me like clay;
    will You return me to dust?
¹⁰ Did You not pour me out like milk
    and curdle me like cheese,
¹¹ clothe me with skin and flesh
    and knit me together with bones and sinews?
¹² You gave me life and steadfast love,
    and Your care has preserved my spirit.

¹³ “Yet these things You have hid in Your heart,
    for I know that this is with You.
¹⁴ If I sinned, You would watch me,
    and not acquit me of my iniquity.
¹⁵ If I am guilty, woe to me!
Even if I am innocent,
    I cannot lift my head.
I am full of shame
    and conscious of my affliction.
¹⁶ If my head is held high,
    You hunt me like a lion,
    and again work wonders against me.
¹⁷ You renew Your witnesses against me,
    and increase Your anger toward me,
    change and warfare are with me.

¹⁸ “Why then did You bring me out from the womb?
I should have died so no eye would have seen me.
¹⁹ If only I had never come into being,
    or been carried from womb to grave.
²⁰ Are not my days few?
Then stop, leave me alone
    so I might have a little joy,
²¹ before I depart, and never return,
    to the land of darkness
    and the shadow of death,
²² the land of utter darkness,
    like the deepest darkness and disorder,
    where even the light is like darkness.”