Job 10 :: Webster's Bible (WEB)

Job Despairs of God's Dealings

Job 10:1My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 10:2I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why thou contendest with me.

Job 10:3Is it good to thee that thou shouldst oppress, that thou shouldst despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

Job 10:4

Job 10:4Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?

Job 10:5

Job 10:5Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,

Job 10:6

Job 10:6That thou inquirest after my iniquity, and searchest after my sin?

Job 10:7

Job 10:7Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thy hand.

Job 10:8

Job 10:8Thy hands have made me and fashioned me in all my parts; yet thou dost destroy me.

Job 10:9

Job 10:9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

Job 10:10

Job 10:10Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?

Job 10:11

Job 10:11Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.

Job 10:12

Job 10:12Thou hast granted me life and favor, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.

Job 10:13

Job 10:13And these things hast thou hid in thy heart: I know that this is with thee.

Job 10:14

Job 10:14If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from my iniquity.

Job 10:15

Job 10:15If I be wicked, woe to me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou my affliction;

Job 10:16

Job 10:16For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou showest thyself wonderful upon me.

Job 10:17

Job 10:17Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thy indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

Job 10:18

Job 10:18Why then hast thou brought me forth from the womb? O that I had expired, and no eye had seen me!

Job 10:19

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

Job 10:20

Job 10:20Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

Job 10:21

Job 10:21Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness, and the shades of death;

Job 10:22

Job 10:22A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shades of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

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Job 10 :: Webster's Bible (WEB)

Job Despairs of God's Dealings

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