Job 10.0:

Job 10.1: 10“My soul is weary of my life.

I will give free course to my complaint.

I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 10.2: 2 I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me.

Show me why you contend with me.

Job 10.3: 3 Is it good to you that you should oppress,

that you should despise the work of your hands,

and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

Job 10.4: 4 Do you have eyes of flesh?

Or do you see as man sees?

Job 10.5: 5 Are your days as the days of mortals,

or your years as man’s years,

Job 10.6: 6 that you inquire after my iniquity,

and search after my sin?

Job 10.7: 7 Although you know that I am not wicked,

there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

Job 10.8: 8 “‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether,

yet you destroy me.

Job 10.9: 9 Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay.

Will you bring me into dust again?

Job 10.10: 10 Haven’t you poured me out like milk,

and curdled me like cheese?

Job 10.11: 11 You have clothed me with skin and flesh,

and knit me together with bones and sinews.

Job 10.12: 12 You have granted me life and loving kindness.

Your visitation has preserved my spirit.

Job 10.13: 13 Yet you hid these things in your heart.

I know that this is with you:

Job 10.14: 14 if I sin, then you mark me.

You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

Job 10.15: 15 If I am wicked, woe to me.

If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head,

being filled with disgrace,

and conscious of my affliction.

Job 10.16: 16 If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion.

Again you show yourself powerful to me.

Job 10.17: 17 You renew your witnesses against me,

and increase your indignation on me.

Changes and warfare are with me.

Job 10.18: 18 “‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb?

I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

Job 10.19: 19 I should have been as though I had not been.

I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

Job 10.20: 20 Aren’t my days few?

Stop!

Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

Job 10.21: 21 before I go where I will not return from,

to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

Job 10.22: 22 the land dark as midnight,

of the shadow of death,

without any order,

where the light is as midnight.’”