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Job 10

Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible

10:1

Weary in my soul, I will pour my words with groans upon him: I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul.

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10:2

And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and wherefore hast thou thus judged me?

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10:3

Is it good before thee if I be unrighteous? for thou hast disowned the work of thy hands, and attended to the counsel of the ungodly.

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10:4

Or dost thou see as a mortal sees? or wilt thou look as a man sees?

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10:5

Or is thy life human, or thy years [the years] of a man,

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10:6

that thou hast enquired into mine iniquity, and searched out my sins?

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10:7

For thou knowest that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that can deliver out of thy hands?

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10:8

Thy hands have formed me and made me; afterwards thou didst change [thy mind], and smite me.

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10:9

Remember that thou hast made me [as] clay, and thou dost turn me again to earth.

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10:10

Hast thou not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?

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10:11

And thou didst clothe me with skin and flesh, and frame me with bones and sinews.

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10:12

And thou didst bestow upon me life and mercy, and thy oversight has preserved my spirit.

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10:13

Having these things in thyself, I know that thou canst do all things; for nothing is impossible with thee.

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10:14

And if I should sin, thou watchest me; and thou hast not cleared me from iniquity.

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10:15

Or if I should be ungodly, woe is me: and if I should be righteous, I cannot lift myself up, for I am full of dishonour.

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10:16

For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again thou hast changed and art terribly destroying me;

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10:17

renewing against me my torture: and thou hast dealt with me in great anger, and thou hast brought trials upon me.

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10:18

Why then didst thou bring me out of the womb? and why did I not die, and no eye see me,

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10:19

and I become as if I had not been? for why was I not carried from the womb to the grave?

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10:20

Is not the time of my life short? suffer me to rest a little,

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10:21

before I go whence I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess;

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10:22

to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither [can any one] see the life of mortals.

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