My soul is weary of my life;
I will give free course to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me;
Show me wherefore thou contendest with me.
Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress,
That thou shouldest despise the {Hebrew: labor.}work of thy hands,
And shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
Hast thou eyes of flesh?
Or seest thou as man seeth?
Are thy days as the days of man,
Or thy years as man's days,
That thou inquirest after mine iniquity,
And searchest after my sin,
Although thou knowest that I am not wicked,
And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?
Thy hands have framed me and fashioned me
Together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay;
And wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Hast thou not poured me out as milk,
And curdled me like cheese?
Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh,
And knit me together with bones and sinews.
Thou hast granted me life and lovingkindness;
And thy {Or, care}visitation hath {Or, I am filled with ignominy, but look thou…for it increaseth: thou &c.}preserved my spirit.
Yet these things thou didst hide in thy heart;
I know that this is with thee:
If I sin, then thou markest me,
And thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
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.
And if my head exalt itself, thou huntest me as a lion;
And again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me.
Thou renewest thy witnesses against me,
And increasest thine indignation upon me:
{Or, Host after host is against me}Changes and warfare are with me.
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb?
I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.
I should have been as though I had not been;
I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
Are not my days few? {Another reading is, let him cease, and leave me alone.}cease then,
And let me alone, that I may {Hebrew: brighten up.}take comfort a little,
Before I go whence I shall not return,
Even to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
The land dark as {Hebrew: thick darkness.}midnight,
The land of the shadow of death, without any order,
And where the light is as {Hebrew: thick darkness.}midnight.
Querverweise zu Hiob 10,15 Hiob 10,15
Although thou knowest that I am not wicked,And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?
Behold, he seizeth the prey, who can {Or, turn him back}hinder him?Who will say unto him, What doest thou?
Even when I remember I am troubled,And horror taketh hold on my flesh.
And Jehovah said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
I shall be condemned;Why then do I labor in vain?
Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer;I would make supplication to my judge.
Therefore am I terrified at his presence;When I consider, I am afraid of him.
Consider mine affliction and my travail;And forgive all my sins.
Let mine enemy be as the wicked,And let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous.
Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me:Though I be perfect, {Or, he}it shall prove me perverse.
ר RESH.Consider mine affliction, and deliver me;For I do not forget thy law.
The wicked shall be turned back unto Sheol,Even all the nations that forget God.
{Or, Though I be perfect, I will not regard &c.}I am perfect; I regard not myself;I despise my life.
Behold, O Jehovah; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled;My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled:Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him; for what his hands have done shall be done unto him.
Thou {Or, sparest}meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou wast wroth, and we sinned: {Or, in those is continuance, and we shall be saved The Hebrew is obscure.}in them have we been of long time; and shall we be saved?
Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us:Behold, and see our reproach.
Our inheritance is turned unto strangers,Our houses unto aliens.
We are orphans and fatherless;Our mothers are as widows.
We have drunken our water for money;Our wood is {Hebrew: cometh for price.}sold unto us.
Our pursuers are upon our necks:We are weary, and have no rest.
We have given the hand to the Egyptians,And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Our fathers sinned, and are not;And we have borne their iniquities.
Servants rule over us:There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
We get our bread at the peril of our lives,Because of the sword of the wilderness.
Our skin is {Or, hot}black like an oven,Because of the burning heat of famine.
They ravished the women in Zion,The virgins in the cities of Judah.
Princes were hanged up by their hand:The faces of elders were not honored.
The young men bare the mill;And the children stumbled under the wood.
The elders have ceased from the gate,The young men from their music.
The joy of our heart is ceased;Our dance is turned into mourning.
The crown is fallen from our head:Woe unto us! for we have sinned.
For this our heart is faint;For these things our eyes are dim;
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate:The {Or, jackels}foxes walk upon it.
Thou, O Jehovah, {Or, sittest as King}abidest for ever;Thy throne is from generation to generation.
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever,And forsake us so long time?
Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned;Renew our days as of old.
{Or, Unless thou…and art &c.}But thou hast utterly rejected us;Thou art very wroth against us.
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts.
For we are all become as one that is unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. {[Chapter 3:19 in Hebrew]}
Even so ye also, when ye shall have done all the things that are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable {Greek: bondservants.}servants; we have done that which it was our duty to do.
but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, shall be wrath and indignation,
tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;