Job Chapter 10 Back Next{10:1} "My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the
bitterness of my soul.
{10:2} I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
{10:3} Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?
{10:4} Do you have eyes of
flesh? Or do you see as man sees?
{10:5} Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man's years,
{10:6} that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?
{10:7} Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.
{10:8} "'Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.
{10:9} Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as
clay. Will you bring me into
dust again?
{10:10} Haven't you poured me out like
milk, and curdled me like
cheese?
{10:11} You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
{10:12} You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.
{10:13} Yet you hid these things in your
heart. I know that this is with you:
{10:14} if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.
{10:15} If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.
{10:16} If my head is held high, you hunt me like a
lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.
{10:17} You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.
{10:18} "'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
{10:19} I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the
grave.
{10:20} Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
{10:21} before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of
darkness and of the shadow of
death;
{10:22} the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"
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