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Job

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Chapter 10

1“My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. 2I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me. 3Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and smile on the counsel of the wicked? 4Have you eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees? 5Are your days as the days of man, or your years as man’s years, 6that you seek for my iniquity and search for my sin, 7though you know that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of your hand? 8Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether. 9Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to dust? 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 this was your purpose: 14if I sin, you will be watching me and will not acquit me of my iniquity. 15If I am guilty, woe to me! If I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look on my affliction. 16If I lift myself up, you hunt me like a lion and again work wonders against me. 17You renew your witnesses against me and increase your indignation toward me; you bring fresh troops against me. 18“Why did you bring me out 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. 20Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take a little comfort 21before I go—and I shall not return—to the land of darkness and deep shadow, 22the land of gloom like thick darkness, utter darkness and disorder, where the light is like thick darkness.”