Job 10
1 “My soul is weary of my life. I will give free rein to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2 I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me; tell me why you contend with me.
3 Does it seem good to you to oppress me, to reject the work of your hands, and to favor the schemes of the wicked?
4 Do you have eyes of flesh? Do you see as a human being sees?
5 Are your days like the days of a mortal? Are your years like the days of a man?
6 For you search for my guilt and pursue my sin,
7 even though you know I am not guilty, and no one can rescue me from your hand.
8 Your hands shaped me and made me whole on every side, and now you devour me.
9 Please remember that you made me like clay. Will you now return me to dust?
10 Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?
11 You clothed me with skin and flesh; you wove me together with bones and sinews.’”
12 “‘You granted me life and steadfast love, and your care guarded my spirit.
13 But you hid these things in your heart; I know this was with you:
14 If I sinned, you would watch me and would not clear me of my guilt.
15 If I were guilty, woe to me! And if I were righteous, I would not lift my head, filled with shame. Look at my affliction!
16 If I rise up, you hunt me like a fierce lion and again show your wonders against me.
17 You renew your witnesses against me and increase your anger toward me; wave after wave and an army come against me.
18 Why, then, did you bring me out of the womb? I would have died before any eye saw me.
19 I would have been as though I had never existed, carried from the womb to the grave.
20 Are my days not few? Stop this; turn away from me, so I may have a little joy,
21 before I go away and do not return, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,
22 a land of deepest darkness, like gloom; the shadow of death, without order, where even the light is like darkness.’”
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