JOB 10
1 My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
3 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
4 Hast thou eyes of flesh, or seest thou as man seeth?
5 Are thy days as the days of man, or thy years as man’s days,
6 That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin,
7 Although thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand?
8 Thine hands have framed me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
12 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
13 Yet these things thou didst hide in thine heart; I know that this is with thee:
14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head; being filled with ignominy and looking upon mine affliction.
16 And if my head exalt itself, thou huntest me as a lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvelous upon me.
17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and warfare are with me.
18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.
19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
20 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
21 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
22 A land of thick darkness, as darkness itself; a land of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
Cross-references
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- 1Job 7:11, 1Ki 19:4, Num 11:15, Jon 4:8, Job 9:21, Job 5:15–16, Job 5:20, Job 14:13
- 2Psa 139:23–24, Job 9:29, Psa 143:2, Job 34:31–32, Job 8:5–6, Psa 6:1–4, Psa 38:1–8, Psa 25:7
- 3Isa 64:8, Job 14:15, Psa 138:8, Jer 12:1–3, 1Pe 4:19, Job 22:18, Job 21:16, Job 36:7–9
- 41Sa 16:7, Luk 16:15, Job 9:32, Rev 1:14
- 52Pe 3:8, Psa 90:2–4, Psa 102:24–27, Heb 1:12, Psa 102:12, Job 36:26
- 6Job 14:16, Psa 44:21, Zep 1:12, Jer 2:34, Psa 10:15, Job 10:14–17, Jhn 2:24–25, 1Co 4:5
- 7Deu 32:39, Psa 139:1–2, Job 42:7, Dan 3:15, Jhn 10:28–30, Psa 17:3, Psa 50:22, 1Th 2:10
- 8Psa 119:73, Isa 43:7, Job 10:3, Jer 18:3–10, Gen 6:6–7
- 9Gen 2:7, Isa 64:8, Gen 3:19, Ecc 12:7, Rom 9:21, Isa 45:9, Jer 18:6, Psa 25:6–7
- 10Psa 139:14–16
- 11Ezk 37:4–8, Job 40:17–18, Eph 4:16, 2Co 5:2–3
- 12Act 17:28, Job 33:4, Act 17:25, Mat 6:25, Gen 19:19
- 13Job 23:13, Deu 32:39, Job 23:9, Rom 11:33, Ecc 8:6–7, Eph 3:11, Lam 3:37, Isa 45:7
- 14Job 7:21, Psa 130:3, Exo 34:7, Job 9:28, Job 13:26–27, Psa 139:1, Num 14:18, Job 14:16
- 15Isa 3:11, Job 9:15, Job 9:20–21, Job 10:7, Psa 25:18, Mal 3:18, Isa 6:5, Exo 3:7
- 16Isa 38:13, Lam 3:10, Job 5:9, Amo 3:8, Deu 28:59, Num 16:29–30, Hos 13:7–8
- 17Rut 1:21, Job 16:8, Zep 1:12, Jer 48:11, Job 16:11–16, Psa 55:19, Job 19:6–11
- 18Jer 20:14–18, Job 14:10, Mat 26:24, Job 11:20, Jer 15:10, Job 3:10–11
- 19Psa 58:8
- 20Job 14:1, Psa 39:13, Job 13:21, Job 7:6–7, Job 7:16–21, Psa 103:15–16, Psa 39:5, Job 9:25–26
- 21Job 16:22, 2Sa 12:23, Job 3:5, Job 7:8–10, Job 14:10–14, Psa 23:4, 2Sa 14:14, Psa 88:11–12
- 22Psa 88:12, Job 38:17, Jer 13:16, Job 3:5, Psa 23:4, Psa 44:19, Jer 2:6, Job 34:22