b Job 7:16
c Job 7:11
d Job 9:29
f Job 9:22-24; 16:11; 19:6; 27:2
g Job 10:8; 14:15; Ps 138:8; Is 64:8
i Job 21:16; 22:18
j 1 Sam 16:7; Job 28:24; 34:21
k Job 36:26
l Job 14:16
m Job 9:21; 13:18
n Job 9:12; 23:13; 27:22
o Job 10:3; Ps 119:73
q Job 9:22
r Job 4:19; 33:6
s Job 7:21
t Job 33:4
u Job 23:13
v Job 7:20
w Job 7:21; 9:28
x Job 10:7; Is 3:11
y Job 6:29
aa Is 38:13; Lam 3:10; Hos 13:7
ab Job 5:9
ac Ruth 1:21; Job 16:8
ae Job 7:1
af Job 3:11-13
ag Job 14:1
ai Job 7:16, 19
aj 2 Sam 12:23; Job 3:13-19; 16:22
ak Ps 88:12
al Job 10:22; 34:22; 38:17; Ps 23:4

‏ Job 10

Job Despairs of God’s Dealings

1 ▼
▼ Lit My soul loathes
 , b“I loathe my own life;
I will give full vent to cmy complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
 2“I will say to God, ‘ dDo not condemn me;
Let me know why You contend with me.
 3‘Is it ▼
▼ Lit good
right for You indeed to foppress,
To reject gthe labor of Your hands,
And ▼
▼ Lit You shine forth
to look favorably on ithe schemes of the wicked?
 4‘Have You eyes of flesh?
Or do You jsee as a man sees?
 5‘Are Your days as the days of a mortal,
Or kYour years as man’s years,
 6That lYou should seek for my guilt
And search after my sin?
 7‘According to Your knowledge mI am indeed not guilty,
Yet there is nno deliverance from Your hand.

 8‘ oYour hands fashioned and made me ▼
▼ Lit together round about
altogether,
qAnd would You destroy me?
 9‘Remember now, that You have made me as rclay;
And would You sturn me into dust again?
 10‘Did You not pour me out like milk
And curdle me like cheese;
 11Clothe me with skin and flesh,
And knit me together with bones and sinews?
 12‘You have tgranted me life and lovingkindness;
And Your care has preserved my spirit.
 13‘Yet uthese things You have concealed in Your heart;
I know that this is within You:
 14If I sin, then You would vtake note of me,
And wwould not acquit me of my guilt.
 15‘If xI am wicked, woe to me!
And yif I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head.
I am sated with disgrace and ▼
▼ Lit see
conscious of my misery.
 16‘Should my head be lifted up, aaYou would hunt me like a lion;
And again You would show Your abpower against me.
 17‘You renew acYour witnesses against me
And increase Your anger toward me;
▼
▼ Lit Changes and warfare are with me
 , aeHardship after hardship is with me.

 18‘ afWhy then have You brought me out of the womb?
Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!
 19‘I should have been as though I had not been,
Carried from womb to tomb.’
 20“Would He not let agmy few days alone?
▼
▼ Lit Put
 , aiWithdraw from me that I may have a little cheer
 21Before I go— ajand I shall not return—
akTo the land of darkness and aldeep shadow,
 22The land of utter gloom as darkness itself,
Of deep shadow without order,
And which shines as the darkness.”
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