微读圣经

1I am disgusted with my life.10:1 Jb 7:16; 9:21; Ps 95:10; 119:158; 139:21; Ezk 6:9; 20:43; 36:31

I will give vent to my complaint

and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

2I will say to God,

“Do not declare me guilty!

Let me know why you prosecute me.

3Is it good for you to oppress,

to reject the work of your hands,10:3 Ps 128:2

and favor10:3 Lit shine on the plans of the wicked?10:3 Ps 1:1; Jb 21:16; 22:18

4Do you have eyes of flesh,

or do you see as a human sees?

5Are your days like those of a human,

or your years like those of a man,10:5 Jb 36:26; Ps 90:4; 2Pt 3:8

6that you look for my iniquity10:6 Jb 13:23,26; 14:17; 22:5

and search for my sin,

7even though you know that I am not wicked

and that there is no one who can rescue from your power?10:7 Dt 32:39; Is 43:13

8“Your hands shaped me and formed me.10:8 Gn 2:7,8,19; Ps 34:15; 94:9; Is 29:16; 43:1,7,21; 44:2,21,24; 45:9,11; 49:5; 64:8; Jr 1:5; 18:6; Zch 12:1

Will you now turn and destroy me?

9Please remember that you formed me like clay.

Will you now return me to dust?10:9 Gn 2:7; Jb 4:19; 34:15

10Did you not pour me out like milk

and curdle me like cheese?

11You clothed me with skin and flesh,

and wove me together with bones and tendons.10:11 Ps 139:13

12You gave me life and faithful love,

and your care has guarded my life.

13“Yet you concealed these thoughts in your heart;

I know that this was your hidden plan:10:13 Lit was with you

14if I sin, you would notice,10:14 Lit notice me

and would not acquit me of my iniquity.10:14 Ex 34:7; Jb 7:21; Am 3:2

15If I am wicked, woe to me!

And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head.

I am filled with shame10:15 Hab 2:16

and have drunk deeply of10:15 Or and look at my affliction.10:15 Jb 9:15; Ps 25:18; Is 3:11

16If I am proud,10:16 Lit If he lifts up you hunt me like a lion

and again display your miraculous power against me.10:16 Jb 5:9; Is 38:13; Lm 3:10

17You produce new witnesses10:17 Or You bring fresh troops against me

and multiply your anger toward me.

Hardships assault me, wave after wave.10:17 Lit Changes and a host are with me

18“Why did you bring me out of the womb?10:18 Jb 1:21; 10:18–19; Jr 20:17–18

I should have died and never been seen.

19I wish10:19 Lit As if I had never existed

but had been carried from the womb to the grave.10:19 Jb 3:22; 5:26; 17:1

20Are my days not few? Stop it!10:20 Alt Hb tradition reads Will he not leave my few days alone?

Leave me alone, so that I can smile a little

21before I go to a land of darkness and gloom,10:21 Jb 3:5; 12:22; 28:3

never to return.

22It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness,

gloomy and chaotic,

where even the light is like10:22 Lit chaotic, and shines as the darkness.”

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