Job 10

taedet animam meam vitae meae dimittam adversum me eloquium meum loquar in amaritudine animae meae

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

dicam Deo noli me condemnare indica mihi cur me ita iudices

I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.

numquid bonum tibi videtur si calumnieris et opprimas me opus manuum tuarum et consilium impiorum adiuves

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?

numquid oculi carnei tibi sunt aut sicut videt homo et tu videbis

Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?

numquid sicut dies hominis dies tui et anni tui sicut humana sunt tempora

Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,

ut quaeras iniquitatem meam et peccatum meum scruteris

That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?

et scias quia nihil impium fecerim cum sit nemo qui de manu tua possit eruere

Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.

manus tuae plasmaverunt me et fecerunt me totum in circuitu et sic repente praecipitas me

Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

memento quaeso quod sicut lutum feceris me et in pulverem reduces me

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

nonne sicut lac mulsisti me et sicut caseum me coagulasti

Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?

pelle et carnibus vestisti me et ossibus et nervis conpegisti me

Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.

vitam et misericordiam tribuisti mihi et visitatio tua custodivit spiritum meum

Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.

licet haec celes in corde tuo tamen scio quia universorum memineris

And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.

si peccavi et ad horam pepercisti mihi cur ab iniquitate mea mundum me esse non pateris

If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

et si impius fuero vae mihi est et si iustus non levabo caput saturatus adflictione et miseria

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;

et propter superbiam quasi leaenam capies me reversusque mirabiliter me crucias

For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

instauras testes tuos contra me et multiplicas iram tuam adversum me et poenae militant in me

Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

quare de vulva eduxisti me qui utinam consumptus essem ne oculus me videret

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!

fuissem quasi qui non essem de utero translatus ad tumulum

I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

numquid non paucitas dierum meorum finietur brevi dimitte ergo me ut plangam paululum dolorem meum

Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

antequam vadam et non revertar ad terram tenebrosam et opertam mortis caligine

Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

terram miseriae et tenebrarum ubi umbra mortis et nullus ordo et sempiternus horror inhabitans

A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.