| 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 thou dost contend against me. | ||
| 3 | Does it seem good to thee to oppress, to despise the work of thy hands and favor the designs of the wicked? | ||
| 4 | Hast thou eyes of flesh? Dost thou see as man sees? | ||
| 5 | Are thy days as the days of man, or thy years as man's years, | ||
| 6 | that thou dost seek out my iniquity and search for my sin, | ||
| 7 | although thou knowest that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of thy hand? | ||
| 8 | Thy hands fashioned and made me; and now thou dost turn about and destroy me. | ||
| 9 | Remember that thou hast made me of clay; and wilt thou turn me to dust again? | ||
| 10 | Didst thou not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese? | ||
| 11 | Thou didst clothe me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. | ||
| 12 | Thou hast granted me life and steadfast love; and thy care has preserved my spirit. | ||
| 13 | Yet these things thou didst hide in thy heart; I know that this was thy purpose. | ||
| 14 | If I sin, thou dost mark me, and dost 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, thou dost hunt me like a lion, and again work wonders against me; | ||
| 17 | thou dost renew thy witnesses against me, and increase thy vexation toward me; thou dost bring fresh hosts against me. | ||
| 18 | "Why didst thou 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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