Job 10 — NETB

10Verse 1“I am weary of my life;
I will complain without restraint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
^{Verse 2}I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me;
tell me why you are contending with me.’
^{Verse 3}Is it good for you to oppress,
to despise the work of your hands,
while you smile
on the schemes of the wicked?

Motivations of God

^{Verse 4}“Do you have eyes of flesh,
or do you see as a human being sees?
^{Verse 5}Are your days like the days of a mortal,
or your years like the years of a mortal,
^{Verse 6}that you must search out my iniquity,
and inquire about my sin,
^{Verse 7}although you know that I am not guilty,
and that there is no one who can deliver
out of your hand?

Contradictions in God’s Dealings

^{Verse 8}“Your hands have shaped me and made me,
but now you destroy me completely.
^{Verse 9}Remember that you have made me as with the clay;
will you return me to dust?
^{Verse 10}Did you not pour me out like milk,
and curdle me like cheese?
^{Verse 11}You clothed me with skin and flesh
and knit me together with bones and sinews.
^{Verse 12}You gave me life and favor,
and your intervention watched over my spirit.
^{Verse 13}“But these things you have concealed in your heart;
I know that this is with you:
^{Verse 14}If I sinned, then you would watch me
and you would not acquit me of my iniquity.
^{Verse 15}If 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.
^{Verse 16}If I lift myself up,
you hunt me as a fierce lion,
and again you display your power against me.
^{Verse 17}You bring new witnesses against me,
and increase your anger against me;
relief troops come against me.

An Appeal for Relief

^{Verse 18}“Why then did you bring me out from the womb?
I should have died
and no eye would have seen me!
^{Verse 19}I should have been as though I had never existed;
I should have been carried
right from the womb to the grave!
^{Verse 20}Are not my days few?
Cease, then, and leave me alone,
that I may find a little comfort,
^{Verse 21}before I depart, never to return,
to the land of darkness
and the deepest shadow,
^{Verse 22}to the land of utter darkness,
like the deepest darkness,
and the deepest shadow and disorder,
where even the light is like darkness.”