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Job 10 :: New International Version (NIV)

Job 10:1

Job 10:1“I loathe my very life; therefore I will give free rein to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 10:2

Job 10:2I say to God: Do not declare me guilty, but tell me what charges you have against me.

Job 10:3

Job 10:3Does it please you to oppress me, to spurn the work of your hands, while you smile on the plans of the wicked?

Job 10:4

Job 10:4Do you have eyes of flesh? Do you see as a mortal sees?

Job 10:5

Job 10:5Are your days like those of a mortal or your years like those of a strong man,

Job 10:6

Job 10:6that you must search out my faults and probe after my sin—

Job 10:7

Job 10:7though you know that I am not guilty and that no one can rescue me from your hand?

Job 10:8

Job 10:8“Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me?

Job 10:9

Job 10:9Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again?

Job 10:10

Job 10:10Did 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 10:12You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit.

Job 10:13

Job 10:13“But this is what you concealed in your heart, and I know that this was in your mind:

Job 10:14

Job 10:14If I sinned, you would be watching me and would not let my offense go unpunished.

Job 10:15

Job 10:15If I am guilty—woe to me! Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head, for I am full of shame and drowned in[fn] my affliction.

Job 10:16

Job 10:16If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lion and again display your awesome power against me.

Job 10:17

Job 10:17You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger toward me; your forces come against me wave upon wave.

Job 10:18

Job 10:18“Why then did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died before any eye saw me.

Job 10:19

Job 10:19If only I had never come into being, or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!

Job 10:20

Job 10:20Are not my few days almost over? Turn away from me so I can have a moment’s joy

Job 10:21

Job 10:21before I go to the place of no return, to the land of gloom and utter darkness,

Job 10:22

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