Job 10 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

Job: I Would Plead with God

Job Pleads Further with God

Job 10:1“My soul loathes my life;
I will give free course to my complaint,
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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

Job 10:3Does it seem good to You that You should oppress,
That You should despise the work of Your hands,
And smile on the counsel of the wicked?

Job 10:4

Job 10:4Do You have eyes of flesh?
Or do You see as man sees?

Job 10:5

Job 10:5Are Your days like the days of a mortal man?
Are Your years like the days of a mighty man,

Job 10:6

Job 10:6That You should seek for my iniquity
And search out my sin,

Job 10:7

Job 10:7Although You know that I am not wicked,
And there is no one who can deliver from Your hand?

Job 10:8

Job 10:8‘Your hands have made me and fashioned me,
An intricate unity;
Yet You would destroy me.

Job 10:9

Job 10:9Remember, I pray, that You have made me like clay.
And will You turn me into 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 have granted me life and favor,
And Your care has preserved my spirit.

Job 10:13

Job 10:13‘And these things You have hidden in Your heart;
I know that this was with You:

Job 10:14

Job 10:14If I sin, then You mark me,
And will not acquit me of my iniquity.

Job 10:15

Job 10:15If I am wicked, woe to me;
Even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head.
I am full of disgrace;
See my misery!

Job 10:16

Job 10:16If my head is exalted,
You hunt me like a fierce lion,
And again You show Yourself awesome against me.

Job 10:17

Job 10:17You renew Your witnesses against me,
And increase Your indignation toward me;
Changes and war are ever with me.

Job 10:18

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

Job 10:19

Job 10:19I would have been as though I had not been.
I would have been carried from the womb to the grave.

Job 10:20

Job 10:20Are not my days few?
Cease! Leave me alone, that I may take a little comfort,

Job 10:21

Job 10:21Before I go to the place from which I shall not return,
To the land of darkness and the shadow of death,

Job 10:22

Job 10:22A land as dark as darkness itself,
As the shadow of death, without any order,
Where even the light is like darkness.’ ”

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