\p Job 10.0: \c 10
\b
\q1
\p Job 10.1: \v 1 “My soul is weary of my life.
\q2 I will give free course to my complaint.
\q2 I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
\q1
\p Job 10.2: \v 2 I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me.
\q2 Show me why you contend with me.
\q1
\p Job 10.3: \v 3 Is it good to you that you should oppress,
\q2 that you should despise the work of your hands,
\q2 and smile on the counsel of the wicked?
\q1
\p Job 10.4: \v 4 Do you have eyes of flesh?
\q2 Or do you see as man sees?
\q1
\p Job 10.5: \v 5 Are your days as the days of mortals,
\q2 or your years as man’s years,
\q1
\p Job 10.6: \v 6 that you inquire after my iniquity,
\q2 and search after my sin?
\q1
\p Job 10.7: \v 7 Although you know that I am not wicked,
\q2 there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.
\b
\q1
\p Job 10.8: \v 8 “‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether,
\q2 yet you destroy me.
\q1
\p Job 10.9: \v 9 Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay.
\q2 Will you bring me into dust again?
\q1
\p Job 10.10: \v 10 Haven’t you poured me out like milk,
\q2 and curdled me like cheese?
\q1
\p Job 10.11: \v 11 You have clothed me with skin and flesh,
\q2 and knit me together with bones and sinews.
\q1
\p Job 10.12: \v 12 You have granted me life and loving kindness.
\q2 Your visitation has preserved my spirit.
\q1
\p Job 10.13: \v 13 Yet you hid these things in your heart.
\q2 I know that this is with you:
\q1
\p Job 10.14: \v 14 if I sin, then you mark me.
\q2 You will not acquit me from my iniquity.
\q1
\p Job 10.15: \v 15 If I am wicked, woe to me.
\q2 If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head,
\q2 being filled with disgrace,
\q2 and conscious of my affliction.
\q1
\p Job 10.16: \v 16 If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion.
\q2 Again you show yourself powerful to me.
\q1
\p Job 10.17: \v 17 You renew your witnesses against me,
\q2 and increase your indignation on me.
\q2 Changes and warfare are with me.
\b
\q1
\p Job 10.18: \v 18 “‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb?
\q2 I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
\q1
\p Job 10.19: \v 19 I should have been as though I had not been.
\q2 I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
\q1
\p Job 10.20: \v 20 Aren’t my days few?
\q2 Stop!
\q1 Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
\q2
\p Job 10.21: \v 21 before I go where I will not return from,
\q2 to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
\q1
\p Job 10.22: \v 22 the land dark as midnight,
\q2 of the shadow of death,
\q2 without any order,
\q2 where the light is as midnight.’”