NETtext - Job - 10

10:1  "I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

10:2  I will say to God, 'Do not condemn me; tell me why you are contending with me.'

10:3  Is it good for you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?

10:4  "Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as a human being sees?

10:5  Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal,

10:6  that you must search out my iniquity, and inquire about my sin,

10:7  although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?

10:8  "Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.

10:9  Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?

10:10  Did you not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?

10:11  You clothed me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews.

10:12  You gave me life and favor, and your intervention watched over my spirit.

10:13  "But these things you have concealed in your heart; I know that this is with you:

10:14  If I sinned, then you would watch me and you would not acquit me of my iniquity.

10:15  If I am guilty, woe to me, and if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head; I am full of shame, and satiated with my affliction.

10:16  If I lift myself up, you hunt me as a fierce lion, and again you display your power against me.

10:17  You bring new witnesses against me, and increase your anger against me; relief troops come against me.

10:18  "Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!

10:19  I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!

10:20  Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

10:21  before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

10:22  to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness."