Job 10

1 “My soul is weary of my life. ‡ Job 7:111Ki 19:4Num 11:15Job 9:21Jon 4:8Job 5:15-16Job 5:20Isa 38:15 +13

I will give free course to my complaint.

I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

2 I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. ‡ Psa 139:23-24Job 9:29Psa 143:21Co 11:31-32Job 34:31-32Job 8:5-6Lam 3:40-42Lam 5:16-17 +5

Show me why you contend with me.

3 Is it good to you that you should oppress, ‡ Isa 64:8Job 14:15Psa 138:8Jer 12:1-31Pe 4:19Job 21:16Job 22:18Job 34:18-19 +10

that you should despise the work of your hands,

and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

4 Do you have eyes of flesh? ‡ 1Sa 16:7Job 9:32Luk 16:15Rev 1:14

Or do you see as man sees?

5 Are your days as the days of mortals, ‡ 2Pe 3:8Psa 90:2-4Heb 1:12Psa 102:24-27Job 36:26Psa 102:12

or your years as man’s years,

6 that you inquire after my iniquity, ‡ Job 14:16Jer 2:34Psa 10:15Psa 44:21Zep 1:121Co 4:5Jhn 2:24-25Job 10:14-17

and search after my sin?

7 Although you know that I am not wicked, ‡ Deu 32:39Dan 3:15Jhn 10:28-30Job 42:7Psa 139:1-21Th 2:10Hos 2:10Jhn 21:17 +13

there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

8 “‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, ‡ Psa 119:73Isa 43:7Job 10:3Jer 18:3-10Gen 6:6-7

yet you destroy me.

9 Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. ‡ Gen 2:7Isa 64:8Gen 3:19Ecc 12:7Isa 45:9Jer 18:6Psa 25:6-7Rom 9:21 +7

Will you bring me into dust again?

10 Haven’t you poured me out like milk, ‡ Psa 139:14-16

and curdled me like cheese?

11 You have clothed me with skin and flesh, ‡ Ezk 37:4-8Eph 4:16Job 40:17-182Co 5:2-3

and knit me together with bones and sinews.

12 You have granted me life and loving kindness. ‡ Act 17:28Job 33:4Act 17:25Gen 19:19Mat 6:25

Your visitation has preserved my spirit.

13 Yet you hid these things in your heart. ‡ Job 23:13Deu 32:39Ecc 8:6-7Eph 3:11Isa 45:15Isa 45:7Isa 46:9-11Job 23:9 +2

I know that this is with you:

14 if I sin, then you mark me. ‡ Job 7:21Psa 130:3Exo 34:7Job 13:26-27Job 9:28Num 14:18Psa 139:1Job 14:16

You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

15 If I am wicked, woe to me. ‡ Isa 3:11Job 9:15Job 9:20-21Job 10:7Isa 6:5Mal 3:18Psa 25:18Exo 3:7 +12

If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head,

being filled with disgrace,

and conscious of my affliction.

16 If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. ‡ Isa 38:13Lam 3:10Job 5:9Amo 3:8Deu 28:59Hos 13:7-8Num 16:29-30

Again you show yourself powerful to me.

17 You renew your witnesses against me, ‡ Job 16:8Rut 1:21Jer 48:11Job 16:11-16Job 19:6-11Psa 55:19Zep 1:12

and increase your indignation on me.

Changes and warfare are with me.

18 “‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? ‡ Jer 20:14-18Jer 15:10Job 11:20Job 14:10Job 3:10-11Mat 26:24

I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

19 I should have been as though I had not been. ‡ Psa 58:8

I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

20 Aren’t my days few? ‡ Job 14:1Psa 39:13Job 13:21Job 7:16-21Job 7:6-7Job 8:9Job 9:25-26Psa 103:15-16 +1

Stop!

Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

21 before I go where I will not return from, ‡ 2Sa 12:23Job 16:22Job 3:5Job 7:8-102Sa 14:14Job 14:10-14Psa 23:4Job 3:13 +4

to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

22 the land dark as midnight, ‡ Psa 88:12Jer 13:16Jer 2:6Job 3:5Job 34:22Job 38:17Luk 16:26Psa 23:4 +1

of the shadow of death,

without any order,

where the light is as midnight.’”