Help QuickNav Adv. Options
ESV

ESV

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Job 10 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles

Job Continues: A Plea to God

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:1 - “I loathe my life;
I will give free utterance to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:2 - I will say to God, Do not condemn me;
let me know why you contend against me.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:3 - Does it seem good to you to oppress,
to despise the work of your hands
and favor the designs of the wicked?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:4 - Have you eyes of flesh?
Do you see as man sees?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:5 - Are your days as the days of man,
or your years as a man’s years,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:6 - that you seek out my iniquity
and search for my sin,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:7 - although you know that I am not guilty,
and there is none to deliver out of your hand?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:8 - Your hands fashioned and made me,
and now you have destroyed me altogether.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:9 - Remember that you have made me like clay;
and will you return me to the dust?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:10 - Did you not pour me out like milk
and curdle me like cheese?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:11 - You clothed me with skin and flesh,
and knit me together with bones and sinews.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:12 - You have granted me life and steadfast love,
and your care has preserved my spirit.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:13 - Yet these things you hid in your heart;
I know that this was your purpose.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:14 - If I sin, you watch me
and do not acquit me of my iniquity.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:15 - If I am guilty, woe to me!
If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head,
for I am filled with disgrace
and look on my affliction.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:16 - And were my head lifted up,[fn] you would hunt me like a lion
and again work wonders against me.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:17 - You renew your witnesses against me
and increase your vexation toward me;
you bring fresh troops against me.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:18 - “Why did you bring me out from the womb?
Would that I had died before any eye had seen me

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:19 - and were as though I had not been,
carried from the womb to the grave.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:20 - Are not my days few?
Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:21 - before I go—and I shall not return—
to the land of darkness and deep shadow,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:22 - the land of gloom like thick darkness,
like deep shadow without any order,
where light is as thick darkness.”
See the ESV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
ESV Footnotes
Hebrew lacks my head
ESV

The Holy Bible, English Standard Version copyright © 2001, 2007, 2011, 2016 by Crossway Books and Bibles, a Publishing Ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

See detailed copyright information.

For more information on this translation, see the ESV Preface.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
ESV
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
ESV
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Job Chapter 10 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras