Job 10 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Job Despairs of God's Dealings

Job 10:1“[fn]I loathe my own life;
I will give full vent to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 10:2“I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me;
Let me know why You contend with me.

Job 10:3‘Is it [fn]right for You indeed to oppress,
To reject the labor of Your hands,
And [fn]to look favorably on the schemes of the wicked?

Job 10:4

Job 10:4‘Have You eyes of flesh?
Or do You see as a man sees?

Job 10:5

Job 10:5‘Are Your days as the days of a mortal,
Or Your years as man’s years,

Job 10:6

Job 10:6That You should seek for my guilt
And search after my sin?

Job 10:7

Job 10:7‘According to Your knowledge I am indeed not guilty,
Yet there is no deliverance from Your hand.

Job 10:8

Job 10:8‘Your hands fashioned and made me [fn]altogether,
And would You destroy me?

Job 10:9

Job 10:9‘Remember now, that You have made me as clay;
And would You turn me into dust again?

Job 10:10

Job 10:10‘Did You not pour me out like milk
And curdle me like cheese;

Job 10:11

Job 10:11Clothe me with skin and flesh,
And knit me together with bones and sinews?

Job 10:12

Job 10:12‘You have granted me life and lovingkindness;
And Your care has preserved my spirit.

Job 10:13

Job 10:13‘Yet these things You have concealed in Your heart;
I know that this is within You:

Job 10:14

Job 10:14If I sin, then You would take note of me,
And would not acquit me of my guilt.

Job 10:15

Job 10:15‘If I am wicked, woe to me!
And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head.
I am sated with disgrace and [fn]conscious of my misery.

Job 10:16

Job 10:16‘Should my head be lifted up, You would hunt me like a lion;
And again You would show Your power against me.

Job 10:17

Job 10:17‘You renew Your witnesses against me
And increase Your anger toward me;
[fn]Hardship after hardship is with me.

Job 10:18

Job 10:18‘Why then have You brought me out of the womb?
Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!

Job 10:19

Job 10:19‘I should have been as though I had not been,
Carried from womb to tomb.’

Job 10:20

Job 10:20“Would He not let my few days alone?
[fn]Withdraw from me that I may have a little cheer

Job 10:21

Job 10:21Before I go—and I shall not return—
To the land of darkness and deep shadow,

Job 10:22

Job 10:22The land of utter gloom as darkness itself,
Of deep shadow without order,
And which shines as the darkness.”

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NASB95 Footnotes

(10:1)

Literally: My soul loathes

(10:3)

Literally: good

(10:3)

Literally: You shine forth

(10:8)

Literally: together round about

(10:15)

Literally: see

(10:17)

Literally: Changes and warfare are with me

(10:20)

Literally: Put

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Job 10 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Job Despairs of God's Dealings

NASB95 Footnotes

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