Job 10
:1
10:1
My soul loathes my own
alife;
I will let my complaint have free course in me;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 10
:2
10:2
I will say to God, Do not account me wicked;
Make known to me why You
acontend with me.
Job 10
:3
10:3
Does it
seem good to You to oppress,
To despise the toil of Your hands
And shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
Job 10
:4
10:4
Do You have eyes of flesh?
Or do You see as a man sees?
Job 10
:5
10:5
Are Your days like the days of a man,
Or Your years like the days of a mighty man,
Job 10
:6
10:6
That You would seek out my iniquity
And search for my sin,
Job 10
:7
10:7
Even though You know that I am not wicked
aAnd that there is none who can deliver out of Your hand?
Job 10
:8
10:8
Your hands have
ashaped me and made me altogether,
Yet You destroy me.
Job 10
:9
10:9
Remember now that You have made me like
aclay;
And will You return me to the
bdust?
Job 10
:10
10:10
Have You not poured me out like milk
And curdled me like cheese?
Job 10
:11
10:11
You have clothed me with skin and flesh
And
awoven me together with bones and sinews.
Job 10
:12
10:12
You have granted me life and lovingkindness,
And Your visitation has preserved my spirit.
Job 10
:13
10:13
But You have
1ahidden these things in Your heart;
I know that this is with You:
Job 10
:14
10:14
If I sin, You mark me,
And You do not acquit me of my iniquity;
Job 10
:15
10:15
If I am wicked, woe unto me;
If I am righteous, I
acannot lift up my head,
Being filled with dishonor and looking on my affliction.
Job 10
:16
10:16
And if
1my head should be lifted up, You would hunt me down like a lion,
And You would again demonstrate wonders on me.
Job 10
:17
10:17
You renew Your witnesses against me
And increase Your anger against me;
Attacking waves and a host are against me.
Job 10
:18
10:18
And why have You brought me out of the
awomb?
I should have died that no eye had seen me;
Job 10
:19
10:19
I should have been as though I had not been;
I should have been carried from birth to the grave.
Job 10
:20
10:20
Are not my days few? Cease then,
And let me alone, that I may be somewhat
1revived,
Job 10
:21
10:21
Before I go, and never
areturn,
To the land of darkness and the shadow of death,
Job 10
:22
10:22
The land of gloom like deep darkness,
The
ashadow of death without order,
Which shines like deep darkness.