Job 10

Job Despairs of God’s Dealings

1 “ ▼

▼Lit My soul loathes

, ^bI am disgusted with my own life;
I will express ^cmy complaint freely;
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 work of Your hands,
And ▼

▼Lit You shine forth

to look favorably on ⁱthe plan of the wicked?
4 ‘Do You have eyes of flesh?
Or do You ^jsee as mankind sees?
5 ‘Are Your days like the days of a mortal,
Or ^kYour years like a man’s year,
6 That ^lYou should search for my guilt
And carefully seek my sin?
7 ‘According to Your knowledge ^mI am indeed not guilty,
Yet there is ⁿno one to save me from Your hand.

8 ‘ ^oYour hands fashioned and made me ▼

▼Lit together round about

altogether,
^qYet would You destroy me?
9 ‘Remember that You have made me as ^rclay;
Yet would You ^sturn me into dust again?
10 ‘Did You not pour me out like milk,
And curdle me like cheese,
11 Clothe me with skin and flesh,
And intertwine me with bones and tendons?
12 ‘You have ^tgranted me life and ▼

▼See Job 1:1-2

goodness;
And Your care has guarded my spirit.
13 ‘Yet You have concealed ^vthese things in Your heart;
I know that this is within You:
14 If I have sinned, You will ^wtake note of me,
And ^xwill not acquit me of my guilt.
15 ‘If ^yI am wicked, woe to me!
But if ^zI am righteous, I dare not lift up my head.
I am full of shame, and ▼

▼Lit see

conscious of my misery.
16 ‘And should my head be high, ^abYou would hunt me like a lion;
And You would show Your ^acpower against me again.
17 ‘You renew ^adYour witnesses against me
And increase Your anger toward me;
▼

▼Lit Changes and warfare are with me

, ^afHardship after hardship is with me.

18 ‘ ^agWhy then did You bring me out of the womb?
If only I had died and no eye had seen me!
19 ‘I should have been as though I had not been,
Brought from womb to tomb.’
20 “Would He not leave ^ahmy few days alone?
▼

▼Lit Put

, ^ajWithdraw from me so that I may have a little cheerfulness
21 Before I go-- ^akand I shall not return--
^alTo the land of darkness and ^amdeep shadow,
22 The land of utter gloom like darkness itself,
Of deep shadow without order,
And it shines like darkness.”