Job 10:8-22 ▼

8 Your hands formed me and made me entirely round about, yet You swallowed me up!

9 Remember, please, that You made me as from the clay. And will You return me to the dust?

10 Was it not like milk that You poured me out, and like cheese You curdled me?

11 With skin and flesh You clothed me, and with bones and sinews You knit me together.

12 Life and loving devotion You have done with me, and Your care has guarded my spirit.

13 And these You have hidden in Your heart; I know that this was with You.

14 If I sin then You keep watch on me, and You will not clear me from my iniquity.

15 If I am wicked, woe to me! And if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head; I am full of shame, and seeing my affliction.

16 And should it arise—as a lion You would hunt me, and turn back and work wonders against me.

17 You renew Your witnesses against me and increase Your indignation with me; changes and warfare are with me.

18 And why did You bring me forth from the womb? Would that I had expired, and an eye had not seen me,

19 as though I had never come to be—that I came from the womb and was carried to the grave!

20 Are not my days few? Then cease and withdraw from me, and let me smile a little,

21 before I go—and I shall not return—to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,

22 a land of obscurity like thick darkness of the shadow of death, and no order, and it shines like deep darkness.”