Job 10
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My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak
in the bitterness of my soul.
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I will say to God, Do not condemn me; Show me wherefore you contend with me.
3
Is it good to you that you should oppress, That you should despise the work of your
hands, And shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
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Have you eyes of flesh? Or see you as man sees?
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Are your days as the days of man, Or your years as man`s days,
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That you inquire after mine iniquity, And search after my sin,
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Although you know that I am not wicked, And there is none that can deliver out of
your hand?
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Your hands have framed me and fashioned me Together round about; yet you do destroy
me.
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Remember, I beseech you, that you have fashioned me as clay; And will you bring
me into dust again?
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Have you not poured me out as milk, And curdled me like cheese?
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You have clothed me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews.
12
You have granted me life and lovingkindness; And your visitation has preserved my
spirit.
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Yet these things you did hide in your heart; I know that this is with you:
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If I sin, then you mark me, And you will not acquit me from mine iniquity.
15
If I be wicked, woe to me; And if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head;
Being filled with ignominy, And looking upon mine affliction.
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And if [my head] exalt itself, you hunt me as a lion; And again you show yourself
marvelous upon me.
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You renew your witnesses against me, And increase your indignation upon me: Changes
and warfare are with me.
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Wherefore then have you brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the
ghost, and no eye had seen me.
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I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb
to the grave.
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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;
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The land dark as midnight, [The land] of the shadow of death, without any order, And
where the light is as midnight.