Job 10
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Job 10
Job: I Loathe My Life
1 #
1 Kings 19.4; Job 7.11, 16 “I loathe my life;
I will give free utterance to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2 #
Job 9.29; Hos 4.1 I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me;
let me know why you contend against me.
3 #
Job 21.16; 22.18 Does it seem good to you to oppress,
to despise the work of your hands
and favor the schemes of the wicked?
4 #
1 Sam 16.7
Do you have eyes of flesh?
Do you see as humans see?
5 #
Ps 90.4; 2 Pet 3.8 Are your days like the days of mortals
or your years like human years,
6that you seek out my iniquity
and search for my sin,
7 #
Job 9.12, 21 although you know that I am not guilty,
and there is no one to deliver out of your hand?
8 #
Ps 119.73
Your hands fashioned and made me,
and now you turn and destroy me.#10.8 Cn Compare Gk Syr: Heb made me together all around, and you destroy me
9 #
Gen 2.7; 3.19; Isa 64.8 Remember that you fashioned me like clay,
and will you turn me to dust again?
10 #
Ps 139.14–16
Did 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.
12 #
Job 33.4
You 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 this was your purpose.
14 #
Job 9.28; 13.27 If I sin, you watch me
and do not acquit me of my iniquity.
15 #
Job 9.12, 15; Ps 25.18; Isa 3.11 If I am wicked, woe to me!
If I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head,
for I am filled with disgrace
and look upon my affliction.
16 #
Job 5.9; Isa 38.13; Lam 3.10 Bold as a lion you hunt me;
you repeat your exploits against me.
17 #
Job 7.1; 16.8 You renew your witnesses against me
and increase your vexation toward me;
you bring fresh troops against me.#10.17 Cn Compare Gk: Heb toward me; changes and a troop are with me
18 #
Job 3.11
“ ‘Why did you bring me forth from the womb?
Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
19and were as though I had not been,
carried from the womb to the grave.
20 #
Job 7.16, 19; 9.27; 14.1 Are not the days of my life few?#10.20 Cn Compare Gk Syr: Heb Are not my days few? Let him cease!
Let me alone, that I may find a little comfort#10.20 Heb that I may brighten up a little
21before I go, never to return,
to the land of gloom and deep darkness,
22the land of gloom#10.22 Heb gloom as darkness, deep darkness and chaos,
where light is like darkness.’ ”
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Job 10
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Job 10
Job: I Loathe My Life
1 #
1 Kings 19.4; Job 7.11, 16 “I loathe my life;
I will give free utterance to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2 #
Job 9.29; Hos 4.1 I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me;
let me know why you contend against me.
3 #
Job 21.16; 22.18 Does it seem good to you to oppress,
to despise the work of your hands
and favor the schemes of the wicked?
4 #
1 Sam 16.7
Do you have eyes of flesh?
Do you see as humans see?
5 #
Ps 90.4; 2 Pet 3.8 Are your days like the days of mortals
or your years like human years,
6that you seek out my iniquity
and search for my sin,
7 #
Job 9.12, 21 although you know that I am not guilty,
and there is no one to deliver out of your hand?
8 #
Ps 119.73
Your hands fashioned and made me,
and now you turn and destroy me.#10.8 Cn Compare Gk Syr: Heb made me together all around, and you destroy me
9 #
Gen 2.7; 3.19; Isa 64.8 Remember that you fashioned me like clay,
and will you turn me to dust again?
10 #
Ps 139.14–16
Did 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.
12 #
Job 33.4
You 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 this was your purpose.
14 #
Job 9.28; 13.27 If I sin, you watch me
and do not acquit me of my iniquity.
15 #
Job 9.12, 15; Ps 25.18; Isa 3.11 If I am wicked, woe to me!
If I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head,
for I am filled with disgrace
and look upon my affliction.
16 #
Job 5.9; Isa 38.13; Lam 3.10 Bold as a lion you hunt me;
you repeat your exploits against me.
17 #
Job 7.1; 16.8 You renew your witnesses against me
and increase your vexation toward me;
you bring fresh troops against me.#10.17 Cn Compare Gk: Heb toward me; changes and a troop are with me
18 #
Job 3.11
“ ‘Why did you bring me forth from the womb?
Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
19and were as though I had not been,
carried from the womb to the grave.
20 #
Job 7.16, 19; 9.27; 14.1 Are not the days of my life few?#10.20 Cn Compare Gk Syr: Heb Are not my days few? Let him cease!
Let me alone, that I may find a little comfort#10.20 Heb that I may brighten up a little
21before I go, never to return,
to the land of gloom and deep darkness,
22the land of gloom#10.22 Heb gloom as darkness, deep darkness and chaos,
where light is like darkness.’ ”
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