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Job, Chapter 10

¹ I will give full vent to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

² “^aI loathe my own life;
² “I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me;
Let me know why You contend with me.
³ ‘Is it^bright for You indeed to oppress,
To reject the labor of Your hands,
And^cto look favorably on the schemes of the wicked?
⁴ ‘Have You eyes of flesh?
Or do You see as a man sees?
⁵ ‘Are Your days as the days of a mortal,
Or Your years as man’s years,
⁶ That You should seek for my guilt
And search after my sin?
⁷ ‘According to Your knowledge I am indeed not guilty,
Yet there is no deliverance from Your hand.
⁸ ‘Your hands fashioned and made me^daltogether,
And would You destroy me?
⁹ ‘Remember now, that You have made me as clay;
And would You turn me into dust again?
¹⁰ ‘Did You not pour me out like milk
And curdle me like cheese;
¹¹ Clothe me with skin and flesh,
And knit me together with bones and sinews?
¹² ‘You have granted me life and lovingkindness;
And Your care has preserved my spirit.
¹³ ‘Yet these things You have concealed in Your heart;
I know that this is within You:
¹⁴ If I sin, then You would take note of me,
And would not acquit me of my guilt.
¹⁵ ‘If I am wicked, woe to me!
And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head.
I am sated with disgrace and^econscious of my misery.
¹⁶ ‘Should my head be lifted up, You would hunt me like a lion;
And again You would show Your power against me.
¹⁷ ‘You renew Your witnesses against me
And increase Your anger toward me;
^fHardship after hardship is with me.
¹⁸ ‘Why then have You brought me out of the womb?
Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!
¹⁹ ‘I should have been as though I had not been,
Carried from womb to tomb.’
²⁰ “Would He not let my few days alone?
^gWithdraw from me that I may have a little cheer
²¹ Before I go—and I shall not return—
To the land of darkness and deep shadow,
²² The land of utter gloom as darkness itself,
Of deep shadow without order,
And which shines as the darkness.”


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