---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Job from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 10
verse_count: 22
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Job, chap. 10, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Job 10

*Job expostulateth with God about his afflictions.*

**1** My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
**2** I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; show me wherefore thou contendest with me.
**3** Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
**4** Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
**5** Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,
**6** That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
**7** Thou knowest, that I am not iniquity, and searchest after my sin? wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
**8** Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
**9** Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
**10** Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
**11** Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
**12** Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
**13** And these things hast thou hid in thine heart; I know that this is with thee.
**14** If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
**15** If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
**16** For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion; and again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me.
**17** Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
**18** Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
**19** I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
**20** Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
**21** Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
**22** A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.