Job 10 — GNB
10Verse 1I am weary of my life; I will let loose within me my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.Verse 2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me! Show me wherefore thou contendest with me!Verse 3Is it a pleasure to thee to oppress, And to despise the work of thy hands, And to shine upon the plans of the wicked?Verse 4Hast thou eyes of flesh, Or seest thou as man seeth?Verse 5Are thy days as the days of a man, Are thy years as the days of a mortal,Verse 6That thou seekest after my iniquity, And searchest after my sin,Verse 7Though thou knowest that I am not guilty, And that none can deliver from thy hand?Verse 8Have thy hands completely fashioned and made me In every part, that thou mightst destroy me?Verse 9O remember that thou hast moulded me as clay! And wilt thou bring me again to dust?Verse 10Thou didst pour me out as milk, And curdle me as cheese;Verse 11With skin and flesh didst thou clothe me, And strengthen me with bones and sinews;Verse 12Thou didst grant me life and favor, And thy protection preserved my breath:Verse 13Yet these things thou didst lay up in thy heart! I know that this was in thy mind.Verse 14If I sin, then thou markest me, And wilt not acquit me of mine iniquity.Verse 15If I am wicked,—then woe unto me! Yet if righteous, I dare not lift up my head; I am full of confusion, beholding my affliction.Verse 16If I lift it up, like a lion thou huntest me, And again showest thyself terrible unto me.Verse 17Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, And increasest thine anger toward me; New hosts continually rise up against me.Verse 18Why then didst thou bring me forth from the womb? I should have perished, and no eye had seen me;Verse 19I should be as though I had not been; I should have been borne from the womb to the grave.Verse 20Are not my days few? O spare then, And let me alone, that I may be at ease a little while,Verse 21Before I go— whence I shall not return—To the land of darkness and death-shade,Verse 22The land of darkness like the blackness of death-shade, Where is no order, and where the light is as darkness.