The Book of Job 10 |
The World English Online Bible (WLD) |
Job 10:1 | "My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. |
Job 10:2 | I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me, Show me why you contend with me. |
Job 10:3 | Is it good to you that you should oppress, That you should despise the work of your hands, And smile on the counsel of the wicked? |
Job 10:4 | Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees? |
Job 10:5 | Are your days as the days of mortals, Or your years as man's years, |
Job 10:6 | That you inquire after my iniquity, And search after my sin? |
Job 10:7 | Although you know that I am not wicked, There is no one who can deliver out of your hand. |
Job 10:8 | 'Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether; Yet you destroy me. |
Job 10:9 | Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again? |
Job 10:10 | Haven't you poured me out like milk, And curdled me like cheese? |
Job 10:11 | You have clothed me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews. |
Job 10:12 | You have granted me life and lovingkindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit. |
Job 10:13 | Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you: |
Job 10:14 | If I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity. |
Job 10:15 | If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, Being filled with disgrace, And conscious of my affliction. |
Job 10:16 | If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me. |
Job 10:17 | You renew your witnesses against me, And increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me. |
Job 10:18 | "'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me. |
Job 10:19 | I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. |
Job 10:20 | Aren't my days few? Cease then, Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort, |
Job 10:21 | Before I go where I shall not return from, To the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; |
Job 10:22 | The land dark as midnight, Of the shadow of death, without any order, Where the light is as midnight.'" |