Job - Chapter 10 | English Standard Version

  • 1. "I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
  • 2. I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.
  • 3. Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked?
  • 4. Have you eyes of flesh? Do you see as man sees?
  • 5. Are your days as the days of man, or your years as a man's years,
  • 6. that you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin,
  • 7. although you know that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of your hand?
  • 8. Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether.
  • 9. Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust?
  • 10. Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?
  • 11. You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
  • 12. You have granted me life and steadfast love, and your care has preserved my spirit.
  • 13. Yet these things you hid in your heart; I know that this was your purpose.
  • 14. If I sin, you watch me and do not acquit me of my iniquity.
  • 15. If I am guilty, woe to me! If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look on my affliction.
  • 16. And were my head lifted up, you would hunt me like a lion and again work wonders against me.
  • 17. You renew your witnesses against me and increase your vexation toward me; you bring fresh troops against me.
  • 18. "Why did you bring me out from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
  • 19. and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.
  • 20. Are not my days few? Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer
  • 21. before I go--and I shall not return-- to the land of darkness and deep shadow,
  • 22. the land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is as thick darkness."
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