{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/ylt/job/10","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T10:26:59.746Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":10,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":9,"nextChapter":11,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":22},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"I say unto God, 'Do not condemn me, Let me know why Thou dost strive with me."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Is it good for Thee that Thou dost oppress? That Thou despisest the labour of Thy hands, And on the counsel of the wicked hast shone?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Eyes of flesh hast Thou? As man seeth — seest Thou?"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"As the days of man are Thy days? Thy years as the days of a man?"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"That Thou inquirest for mine iniquity, And for my sin seekest?"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Thy hand."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up!"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Dost Thou not as milk pour me out? And as cheese curdle me?"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Skin and flesh Thou dost put on me, And with bones and sinews dost fence me."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Life and kindness Thou hast done with me. And Thy inspection hath preserved my spirit."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"And these Thou hast laid up in Thy heart, I have known that this is with Thee."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"If I sinned, then Thou hast observed me, And from mine iniquity dost not acquit me,"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"If I have done wickedly — woe to me, And righteously — I lift not up my head, Full of shame — then see my affliction,"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And it riseth — as a lion Thou huntest me. And Thou turnest back — Thou shewest Thyself wonderful in me."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare are with me."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"As I had not been, I am, From the belly to the grave I am brought,"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade — and no order, And the shining is as thick darkness.'"}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 10 (YLT)","markdown":"[Job 10](https://primebible.com/ylt/job/10)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/job/10 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}