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Job 10 :: Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Job 10:1

I am disgusted with my life.

I will give vent to my complaint

and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 10:2

I will say to God,

“Do not declare me guilty!

Let me know why you prosecute me.

Job 10:3

“Is it good for you to oppress,

to reject the work of your hands,

and favor[fn] the plans of the wicked?

Job 10:4

“Do you have eyes of flesh,

or do you see as a human sees?

Job 10:5

“Are your days like those of a human,

or your years like those of a man,

Job 10:6

“that you look for my iniquity

and search for my sin,

Job 10:7

“even though you know that I am not wicked

and that there is no one who can rescue from your power?

Job 10:8

“Your hands shaped me and formed me.

Will you now turn and destroy me?

Job 10:9

“Please remember that you formed me like clay.

Will you now return me to dust?

Job 10:10

“Did you not pour me out like milk

and curdle me like cheese?

Job 10:11

“You clothed me with skin and flesh,

and wove me together with bones and tendons.

Job 10:12

“You gave me life and faithful love,

and your care has guarded my life.

Job 10:13

“Yet you concealed these thoughts in your heart;

I know that this was your hidden plan:[fn]

Job 10:14

“if I sin, you would notice,[fn]

and would not acquit me of my iniquity.

Job 10:15

“If I am wicked, woe to me!

And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head.

I am filled with shame

and have drunk deeply of[fn] my affliction.

Job 10:16

“If I am proud,[fn] you hunt me like a lion

and again display your miraculous power against me.

Job 10:17

“You produce new witnesses[fn] against me

and multiply your anger toward me.

Hardships assault me, wave after wave.[fn]

Job 10:18

“Why did you bring me out of the womb?

I should have died and never been seen.

Job 10:19

“I wish[fn] I had never existed

but had been carried from the womb to the grave.

Job 10:20

“Are my days not few? Stop it![fn]

Leave me alone, so that I can smile a little

Job 10:21

“before I go to a land of darkness and gloom,

never to return.

Job 10:22

“It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness,

gloomy and chaotic,

where even the light is like[fn] the darkness.”

CSB Footnotes
Lit shine on
Lit was with you
Lit notice me
Or and look at
Lit If he lifts up
Or You bring fresh troops
Lit Changes and a host are with me
Lit As if
Alt Hb tradition reads Will he not leave my few days alone?
Lit chaotic, and shines as
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