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
10
Job Frames His Plea to God
1“I am disgusted with my life.
Let me complain freely.
My bitter soul must complain.
2I will say to God, ‘Don’t simply condemn me—
tell me the charge you are bringing against me.
3What do you gain by oppressing me?
Why do you reject me, the work of your own hands,
while smiling on the schemes of the wicked?
4Are your eyes like those of a human?
Do you see things only as people see them?
5Is your lifetime only as long as ours?
Is your life so short
6that you must quickly probe for my guilt
and search for my sin?
7Although you know I am not guilty,
no one can rescue me from your hands.
8“‘You formed me with your hands; you made me,
yet now you completely destroy me.
9Remember that you made me from dust—
will you turn me back to dust so soon?
10You guided my conception
and formed me in the womb.#10:10 Hebrew You poured me out like milk / and curdled me like cheese.
11You clothed me with skin and flesh,
and you knit my bones and sinews together.
12You gave me life and showed me your unfailing love.
My life was preserved by your care.
13“‘Yet your real motive—
your true intent—
14was to watch me, and if I sinned,
you would not forgive my guilt.
15If I am guilty, too bad for me;
and even if I’m innocent, I can’t hold my head high,
because I am filled with shame and misery.
16And if I hold my head high, you hunt me like a lion
and display your awesome power against me.
17Again and again you witness against me.
You pour out your growing anger on me
and bring fresh armies against me.
18“‘Why, then, did you deliver me from my mother’s womb?
Why didn’t you let me die at birth?
19It would be as though I had never existed,
going directly from the womb to the grave.
20I have only a few days left, so leave me alone,
that I may have a moment of comfort
21before I leave—never to return—
for the land of darkness and utter gloom.
22It is a land as dark as midnight,
a land of gloom and confusion,
where even the light is dark as midnight.’”
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