Book of Job, Chapter 10
Chapter 10 of Job
I will give free utterance to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
let me know why thou dost contend against me.
to despise the work of thy hands
and favor the designs of the wicked?
Dost thou see as man sees?
or thy years as man’s years,
and search for my sin,
and there is none to deliver out of thy hand?
and now thou dost turn about and destroy me.[a]
and wilt thou turn me to dust again?
and curdle me like cheese?
and knit me together with bones and sinews.
and thy care has preserved my spirit.
I know that this was thy purpose.
and dost not acquit me of my iniquity.
If I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head,
for I am filled with disgrace
and look upon my affliction.
and again work wonders against me;
and increase thy vexation toward me;
thou dost bring fresh hosts against me.[d]
Would that I had died before any eye had seen me,
carried from the womb to the grave.
Let me alone, that I may find a little comfort[f]
to the land of gloom and deep darkness,
where light is as darkness.”FOOTNOTES
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