Verse 15
Job 10:15
Free Bible Version
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If I'm guilty I'm in trouble, if I'm innocent I can't hold my head high because I'm totally disgraced as I look at my sufferings.
Original Language Text
hebrew
אִם רָשַׁ֡עְתִּי אַלְלַ֬י לִ֗/י וְ֭/צָדַקְתִּי לֹא אֶשָּׂ֣א רֹאשִׁ֑/י שְׂבַ֥ע קָ֝ל֗וֹן וּ/רְאֵ֥ה עָנְיִֽ/י
English Translation
If I have acted wickedly, let my adversary come against me; but if I am in the right, I will not lift my head, filled with shame, and see my misery.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 10 Context
1
I hate my life! Let me speak freely about my complaints—I can't keep my bitterness to myself.
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2
I will tell God (Elohim), “Don't just condemn me—tell me what you have against me.
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3
Do you enjoy accusing me? Why do you reject me, someone you made with your own hands, and yet smile...
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4
Do you have human eyes? Do you see like human beings do?
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5
Is your life as short as mortal beings? Are your years as brief as those of humanity,
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6
that you have to examine my wrongs and investigate my sins?
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7
Even though you know I'm not guilty, no one can save me from you.
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8
You made me and shaped me with your own hands, and yet you destroy me.
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9
Remember that you shaped me like a piece of clay—are you now going to turn me back into dust?
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10
You poured me out like milk, you curdled me like cheese.
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11
You clothed me with skin and flesh; you wove my body together with bones and muscles.
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12
You granted me life and showed me your kindness; you have taken great care of me.
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13
But you kept these things hidden in your heart. I know your purpose was
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14
to watch me, and if I sinned, then you would not forgive my wrongs.
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15
If I'm guilty I'm in trouble, if I'm innocent I can't hold my head high because I'm totally disgrace...
16
If I do hold my head high you hunt me down like a lion, showing how powerful you are in hurting me.
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17
You repeat your arguments against me, you pour out more and more of your anger against me, you send...
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18
So why did you allow me to be born? I wish that I had died, and nobody had ever seen me!
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19
It would have been better if I had never existed, taken straight from the womb to the grave.
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20
I only have a few days left, so why don't you leave me alone so I can have a little peace
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21
before I go to where I shall never return from, the land of darkness and the shadow of death—
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22
the land of total darkness where death's shadow lies, a place of chaos where light itself is darknes...
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