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Job 10

Job Continues: A Plea to God

1 “I ^aloathe my life;
I will give free utterance to my ^bcomplaint;
I will speak in ^cthe bitterness of my soul.
2 I will say to God, Do not ^dcondemn me;
let me know why you ^econtend against me.
3 ^fDoes it seem good to you to oppress,
to despise ^gthe work of your hands
^hand favor the designs of the wicked?
4 Have you ⁱeyes of flesh?
^jDo you see as man sees?
5 Are your days as the days of man,
or your ^kyears as a man’s years,
6 that you ^lseek out my iniquity
and search for my sin,
7 although you ^mknow that I am not guilty,
and there is ⁿnone to deliver out of your hand?
8 ^oYour hands fashioned and made me,
and now you have destroyed me altogether.
9 Remember that you have made me like ^pclay;
and will you return me to the ^qdust?
10 Did you not pour me out like milk
and curdle me like cheese?
11 You clothed me with skin and flesh,
and knit me together with bones and sinews.
12 You have granted me life and steadfast love,
and your care has preserved my spirit.
13 Yet these things you hid in your heart;
I know that ^rthis was your purpose.
14 If I sin, you ^swatch me
and do not ^tacquit me of my iniquity.
15 ^uIf I am guilty, woe to me!
If I am ^vin the right, I cannot lift up my head,
for I am filled with disgrace
and ^wlook on my affliction.
16 And were my head lifted up ^{▼

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Hebrew lacks my head} you would hunt me like ^ya lion
and again work ^zwonders against me.
17 You renew your ^aawitnesses against me
and increase your vexation toward me;
you ^abbring fresh troops against me.
18 ^ac“Why did you bring me out from the womb?
Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
19 ^adand were as though I had not been,
carried from the womb to the grave.
20 ^aeAre not my days few?
^afThen cease, and leave me alone ^agthat I may find a little cheer
21 before I go—and ^ahI shall not return—
to the land of ^aidarkness and ^ajdeep shadow,
22 the land of gloom like thick darkness,
like deep shadow without any order,
where light is as thick darkness.”