Job 10:1 (BSB)
“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 10:2 (BSB)
I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.

Job 10:3 (BSB)
Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?

Job 10:4 (BSB)
Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?

Job 10:5 (BSB)
Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man,

Job 10:6 (BSB)
that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin—

Job 10:7 (BSB)
though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?

Job 10:8 (BSB)
Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?

Job 10:9 (BSB)
Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?

Job 10:10 (BSB)
Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?

Job 10:11 (BSB)
You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

Job 10:12 (BSB)
You have granted me life and loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit.

Job 10:13 (BSB)
Yet You concealed these things in Your heart, and I know that this was in Your mind:

Job 10:14 (BSB)
If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.

Job 10:15 (BSB)
If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.

Job 10:16 (BSB)
Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.

Job 10:17 (BSB)
You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.

Job 10:18 (BSB)
Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!

Job 10:19 (BSB)
If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.

Job 10:20 (BSB)
Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,

Job 10:21 (BSB)
before I go—never to return—to a land of darkness and gloom,

Job 10:22 (BSB)
to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
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