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