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Job 10 :: New English Translation (NET)

Job 10:1

Job 10:1"I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 10:2

Job 10:2I will say to God, 'Do not condemn me; tell me why you are contending with me.'

Job 10:3

Job 10:3Is it good for you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?

Job 10:4

Job 10:4"Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as a human being sees?

Job 10:5

Job 10:5Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal,

Job 10:6

Job 10:6that you must search out my iniquity, and inquire about my sin,

Job 10:7

Job 10:7although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?

Job 10:8

Job 10:8"Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.

Job 10:9

Job 10:9Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?

Job 10:10

Job 10:10Did you not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?

Job 10:11

Job 10:11You clothed me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews.

Job 10:12

Job 10:12You gave me life and favor, and your intervention watched over my spirit.

Job 10:13

Job 10:13"But these things you have concealed in your heart; I know that this is with you:

Job 10:14

Job 10:14If I sinned, then you would watch me and you would not acquit me of my iniquity.

Job 10:15

Job 10:15If I am guilty, woe to me, and if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head; I am full of shame, and satiated with my affliction.

Job 10:16

Job 10:16If I lift myself up, you hunt me as a fierce lion, and again you display your power against me.

Job 10:17

Job 10:17You bring new witnesses against me, and increase your anger against me; relief troops come against me.

Job 10:18

Job 10:18"Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!

Job 10:19

Job 10:19I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!

Job 10:20

Job 10:20Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

Job 10:21

Job 10:21before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

Job 10:22

Job 10:22to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness."
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