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Job 10

Jewish Publication Society 1917 · Berean Standard Bible

10:1

My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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10:2

I will say unto God: Do not condemn me; Make me know wherefore Thou contendest with me.

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10:3

Is it good unto Thee that Thou shouldest oppress, That Thou shouldest despise the work of Thy hands, And shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

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10:4

Hast Thou eyes of flesh? Or seest Thou as man seeth?

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10:5

Are Thy days as the days of man, Or Thy years as a man’s days,

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10:6

That Thou inquirest after mine iniquity, And searchest after my sin, .

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10:7

Although Thou knowest that I shall not be condemned; And there is none that can deliver out of Thy hand?

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10:8

Thy hands have framed me and fashioned me Together round about; yet Thou dost destroy me!

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10:9

Remember, I beseech Thee, that Thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt Thou bring me into dust again?

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10:10

Hast Thou not poured me out as milk, And curdled me like cheese?

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10:11

Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews.

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10:12

Thou hast granted me life and favour, And Thy providence hath preserved my spirit.

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10:13

Yet these things Thou didst hide in Thy heart; I know that this is with Thee;

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10:14

If I sin, then Thou markest me, And Thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

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10:15

If I be wicked, woe unto me; And if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head— Being filled with ignominy And looking upon mine affliction.

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10:16

And if it exalt itself, Thou huntest me as a lion; And again Thou showest Thyself marvellous upon me.

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10:17

Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And increasest Thine indignation upon me; Host succeeding host against me.

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10:18

Wherefore then hast Thou brought me forth out of the womb? Would that I had perished, and no eye had seen me!

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10:19

I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

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10:20

Are not my days few? Cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

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10:21

Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

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10:22

A land of thick darkness, as darkness itself; A land of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness.

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