| 10 | Job | ||
| 1 | "I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. | ||
| 2 | I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me. | ||
| 3 | Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favour the designs of the wicked? | ||
| 4 | Have you eyes of flesh? Do you see as man sees? | ||
| 5 | Are your days as the days of man, or your years as man's years, | ||
| 6 | that you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin, | ||
| 7 | although you know that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of your hand? | ||
| 8 | Your hands fashioned and made me; and now you turn about and destroy me. | ||
| 9 | Remember that you have made me of clay; and will you turn me to dust again? | ||
| 10 | Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese? | ||
| 11 | You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knitted 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 this was your purpose. | ||
| 14 | If I sin, you mark me, and do not acquit me of my iniquity. | ||
| 15 | If I am wicked, woe to me! If I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look upon my affliction. | ||
| 16 | And if I lift myself up, you hunt me like a lion, and again work wonders against me; | ||
| 17 | you renew your witnesses against me, and increase your vexation toward me; you bring fresh hosts against me. | ||
| 18 | "Why did you bring me forth from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me, | ||
| 19 | and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave. | ||
| 20 | Are not the days of my life few? Let me alone, that I may find a little comfort | ||
| 21 | before I go whence I shall not return, to the land of gloom and deep darkness, | ||
| 22 | the land of gloom and chaos, where light is as darkness." | ||
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