Job 10:8-22 ▼

8 “Your hands shaped me and formed me. Will you now turn and destroy me?

9 Please remember that you formed me like clay. Will you now return me to dust?

10 Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?

11 You clothed me with skin and flesh, and wove me together with bones and tendons.

12 You gave me life and faithful love, and your care has guarded my life.

13 “Yet you concealed these thoughts in your heart; I know that this was your hidden plan:

14 if I sin, you would notice, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.

15 If I am wicked, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head. I am filled with shame and have drunk deeply of my affliction.

16 If I am proud, you hunt me like a lion and again display your miraculous power against me.

17 You produce new witnesses against me and multiply your anger toward me. Hardships assault me, wave after wave.

18 “Why did you bring me out of the womb? I should have died and never been seen.

19 I wish I had never existed but had been carried from the womb to the grave.

20 Are my days not few? Stop it! Leave me alone, so that I can smile a little

21 before I go to a land of darkness and gloom, never to return.

22 It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness, gloomy and chaotic, where even the light is like the darkness.”