Job Chapter 10 (ESV)

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undefined “I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

undefined I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.

undefined Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked?

undefined Have you eyes of flesh? Do you see as man sees?

undefined Are your days as the days of man, or your years as a man's years,

undefined that you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin,

undefined although you know that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of your hand?

undefined Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether.

undefined Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust?

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

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

undefined You have granted me life and steadfast love, and your care has preserved my spirit.

undefined Yet these things you hid in your heart; I know that this was your purpose.

undefined If I sin, you watch me and do not acquit me of my iniquity.

undefined If 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.

undefined And were my head lifted up, you would hunt me like a lion and again work wonders against me.

undefined You renew your witnesses against me and increase your vexation toward me; you bring fresh troops against me.

undefined “Why did you bring me out from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me

undefined and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.

undefined Are not my days few? Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer

undefined before I go — and I shall not return — to the land of darkness and deep shadow,

undefined the land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is as thick darkness.”

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