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# Job 10

Job 10 is chapter 10 of 42 in the Book of Job. Here are all 22 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Job lements his afflictions and begs to be delivered.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Job 10 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. My soul is weary of my life. I will release my words against myself. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2. I will say to God: Do not be willing to condemn me. Reveal to me why you judge me this way.
3. Does it seem good to you, if you find fault with me and oppress me, the work of your own hands, and assist the counsel of the impious?
4. Do you have bodily eyes? Or, just as man sees, will you see?
5. Are your days just like the days of man, and are your years as the times of humans,
6. so that you would inquire about my iniquity and examine my sin?
7. And you know that I have done nothing impious, yet there is no one who can deliver from your hand.
8. Your hands have made me and formed me all around, and, in this way, do you suddenly throw me away?
9. Remember, I ask you, that you have fashioned me like clay, and you will reduce me to dust.
10. Have you not extracted me like milk and curdled me like cheese?
11. You have clothed me with skin and flesh. You have put me together with bones and nerves.
12. You have assigned to me life and mercy, and your visitation has preserved my spirit.
13. Though you may conceal this in your heart, yet I know that you remember everything.
14. If I have sinned, and you have spared me for an hour, why do you not endure me to be clean from my iniquity?
15. And if I should be impious, woe to me, and if I should be just, I will not lift up my head, being drenched with affliction and misery.
16. And because of pride, you will seize me like a lioness, and having returned, you torment me to an extraordinary degree.
17. You renew your testimony against me, and you multiply your wrath against me, and these punishments make war within me.
18. Why did you lead me out of the womb? If only I had been consumed, so that no eye would ever see me!
19. I should have been as if I had not been: transferred from the womb to the tomb.
20. Will not my few days be completed soon? Release me, therefore, so that I may lament my sorrows a little,
21. before I depart and return no more to a land that is dark and covered with the fog of death,
22. a land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and nothing else but everlasting horror, dwells.

## Job 10 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Tædet animam meam vitæ meæ; dimittam adversum me eloquium meum: loquar in amaritudine animæ meæ.
2. Dicam Deo: Noli me condemnare; indica mihi cur me ita judices.
3. Numquid bonum tibi videtur, si calumnieris me, et opprimas me opus manuum tuarum, et consilium impiorum adjuves?
4. Numquid oculi carnei tibi sunt? aut sicut videt homo, et tu videbis?
5. Numquid sicut dies hominis dies tui, et anni tui sicut humana sunt tempora,
6. ut quæras iniquitatem meam, et peccatum meum scruteris,
7. et scias quia nihil impium fecerim, cum sit nemo qui de manu tua possit eruere?
8. Manus tuæ fecerunt me, et plasmaverunt me totum in circuitu: et sic repente præcipitas me?
9. Memento, quæso, quod sicut lutum feceris me, et in pulverem reduces me.
10. Nonne sicut lac mulsisti me, et sicut caseum me coagulasti?
11. Pelle et carnibus vestisti me; ossibus et nervis compegisti me.
12. Vitam et misericordiam tribuisti mihi, et visitatio tua custodivit spiritum meum.
13. Licet hæc celes in corde tuo, tamen scio quia universorum memineris.
14. Si peccavi, et ad horam pepercisti mihi, cur ab iniquitate mea mundum me esse non pateris?
15. Et si impius fuero, væ mihi est; et si justus, non levabo caput, saturatus afflictione et miseria.
16. Et propter superbiam quasi leænam capies me, reversusque mirabiliter me crucias.
17. Instauras testes tuos contra me, et multiplicas iram tuam adversum me, et pœnæ militant in me.
18. Quare de vulva eduxisti me? qui utinam consumptus essem, ne oculus me videret.
19. Fuissem quasi non essem, de utero translatus ad tumulum.
20. Numquid non paucitas dierum meorum finietur brevi? dimitte ergo me, ut plangam paululum dolorem meum,
21. antequam vadam, et non revertar, ad terram tenebrosam, et opertam mortis caligine:
22. terram miseriæ et tenebrarum, ubi umbra mortis et nullus ordo, sed sempiternus horror inhabitat.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- cf. CCC ¶ 2270: Respect for Human Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).