Job 10
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Job: I Would Plead with God
1“My #1 Kin. 19:4; Job 7:16; Jon. 4:3soul loathes my life;
I will give free course to my complaint,
#Job 7:11I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me;
Show me why You contend with me.
3Does it seem good to You that You should oppress,
That You should despise the work of Your hands,
And smile on the counsel of the wicked?
4Do You have eyes of flesh?
Or #(1 Sam. 16:7; Job 28:24; 34:21)do You see as man sees?
5Are Your days like the days of a mortal man?
Are Your years like the days of a mighty man,
6That You should seek for my iniquity
And search out my sin,
7Although You know that I am not wicked,
And there is no one who can deliver from Your hand?
8‘Your#Job 10:3; Ps. 119:73 hands have made me and fashioned me,
An intricate unity;
Yet You would #(Job 9:22)destroy me.
9Remember, I pray, #Gen. 2:7; Job 33:6that You have made me like clay.
And will You turn me into dust again?
10#(Ps. 139:14–16)Did You not pour me out like milk,
And curdle me like cheese,
11Clothe me with skin and flesh,
And knit me together with bones and sinews?
12You have granted me life and favor,
And Your care has preserved my spirit.
13‘And these things You have hidden in Your heart;
I know that this was with You:
14If I sin, then #Job 7:20; Ps. 139:1You mark me,
And will not acquit me of my iniquity.
15If I am wicked, #Job 10:7; Is. 3:11woe to me;
#(Job 9:12, 15)Even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head.
I am full of disgrace;
#Ps. 25:18See my misery!
16If my head is exalted,
#Is. 38:13; Lam. 3:10; Hos. 13:7You hunt me like a fierce lion,
And again You show Yourself awesome against me.
17You renew Your witnesses against me,
And increase Your indignation toward me;
Changes and war are ever with me.
18‘Why#Job 3:11–13 then have You brought me out of the womb?
Oh, that I had perished and no eye had seen me!
19I would have been as though I had not been.
I would have been carried from the womb to the grave.
20#Ps. 39:5Are not my days few?
Cease! #Job 7:16, 19Leave me alone, that I may take a little comfort,
21Before I go to the place from which I shall not return,
#Ps. 88:12To the land of darkness #Ps. 23:4and the shadow of death,
22A land as dark as darkness itself,
As the shadow of death, without any order,
Where even the light is like darkness.’ ”
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Job 10
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Job Continues: A Plea to God
1“I #[ch. 7:16; 9:21; Num. 11:15; 1 Kgs. 19:4] loathe my life;
I will give free utterance to my #ch. 21:4; 23:2 complaint;
I will speak in #See ch. 7:11the bitterness of my soul.
2I will say to God, Do not #ch. 9:29 condemn me;
let me know why you #ch. 9:3contend against me.
3 # ch. 13:9; Ps. 89:38 Does it seem good to you to oppress,
to despise #ch. 14:15; Ps. 138:8; Isa. 64:8 the work of your hands
# [ch. 9:24] and favor the designs of the wicked?
4Have you #[John 8:15] eyes of flesh?
#
1 Sam. 16:7
Do you see as man sees?
5Are your days as the days of man,
or your #ch. 36:26; Ps. 77:10; [Ps. 90:4; 2 Pet. 3:8]years as a man’s years,
6that you #[ch. 14:16]seek out my iniquity
and search for my sin,
7although you #[ch. 2:3, 9] know that I am not guilty,
and there is #Deut. 32:39; Isa. 43:13none to deliver out of your hand?
8 #
Ps. 119:73
Your hands fashioned and made me,
and now you have destroyed me altogether.
9Remember that you have made me like #See ch. 4:17 clay;
and will you return me to the #ch. 34:15; Gen. 2:7; 3:19; Ps. 146:4; Eccles. 12:7dust?
10Did you not pour me out like milk
and curdle me like cheese?
11You clothed me with skin and flesh,
and knit me together with bones and sinews.
12You have granted me life and steadfast love,
and your care has preserved my spirit.
13Yet these things you hid in your heart;
I know that #ch. 23:14; 27:11this was your purpose.
14If I sin, you #ch. 13:27; 33:11; Ps. 130:3 watch me
and do not #ch. 9:28acquit me of my iniquity.
15 #
Isa. 3:11 If I am guilty, woe to me!
If I am #ch. 9:15 in the right, I cannot lift up my head,
for I am filled with disgrace
and #[Ps. 25:18]look on my affliction.
16And were my head lifted up,#10:16 Hebrew lacks my head you would hunt me like #ch. 28:8; Hos. 5:14; 13:7; [Isa. 38:13] a lion
and again work #[ch. 5:9]wonders against me.
17You renew your #[ch. 16:8; Ruth 1:21] witnesses against me
and increase your vexation toward me;
you #[ch. 19:12]bring fresh troops against me.
18 # ch. 3:11; [ch. 3:3] “Why did you bring me out from the womb?
Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
19 #
Obad. 16
and were as though I had not been,
carried from the womb to the grave.
20 # See ch. 14:1 Are not my days few?
# See ch. 7:16 Then cease, and leave me alone, #ch. 9:27; Ps. 39:13that I may find a little cheer
21before I go—and #[ch. 16:22; 2 Sam. 12:23] I shall not return—
to the land of #ch. 30:26; Ps. 88:12 darkness and #See ch. 3:5deep shadow,
22the land of gloom like thick darkness,
like deep shadow without any order,
where light is as thick darkness.”
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