Job 10
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1“I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.1"I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.2I will say to God, 'Do not condemn me; tell me why you are contending with me.'
3Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked?3Is it good for you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?
4Have you eyes of flesh? Do you see as man sees?4"Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as a human being sees?
5Are your days as the days of man, or your years as a man’s years,5Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal,
6that you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin,6that you must search out my iniquity, and inquire about my sin,
7although you know that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of your hand?7although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?
8Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether.8"Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.
9Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust?9Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?
10Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?10Did you not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?
11You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.11You clothed me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews.
12You have granted me life and steadfast love, and your care has preserved my spirit.12You gave me life and favor, and your intervention watched over my spirit.
13Yet these things you hid in your heart; I know that this was your purpose.13"But these things you have concealed in your heart; I know that this is with you:
14If I sin, you watch me and do not acquit me of my iniquity.14If I sinned, then you would watch me and you would not acquit me of my iniquity.
15If 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.15If I am guilty, woe to me, and if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head; I am full of shame, and satiated with my affliction.
16And were my head lifted up, you would hunt me like a lion and again work wonders against me.16If I lift myself up, you hunt me as a fierce lion, and again you display your power against me.
17You renew your witnesses against me and increase your vexation toward me; you bring fresh troops against me.17You bring new witnesses against me, and increase your anger against me; relief troops come against me.
18“Why did you bring me out from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me18"Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!
19and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.19I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!
20Are not my days few? Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer20Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
21before I go—and I shall not return— to the land of darkness and deep shadow,21before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,
22the land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is as thick darkness.”22to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness."
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Job 9
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