Job 10 (NET)

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Job 10:1¹“I am weary of my life; I will complain freely without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 10:2²I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me; tell me why you are contending with me.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 10:3³Is it good for you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 10:4⁴“Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as a human being sees?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 10:5⁵Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 10:6⁶that you must search out my iniquity, and inquire about my sin,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 10:7⁷although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 10:8⁸“Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 10:9⁹Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 10:10¹⁰Did you not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 10:11¹¹You clothed me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 10:12¹²You gave me life and favor, and your intervention watched over my spirit.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 10:13¹³“But these things you have concealed in your heart; I know that this is with you:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 10:14¹⁴If I sinned, then you would watch me and you would not acquit me of my iniquity.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 10:15¹⁵If 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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 10:16¹⁶If I lift myself up, you hunt me as a fierce lion, and again you display your power against me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 10:17¹⁷You bring new witnesses against me, and increase your anger against me; relief troops come against me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 10:18¹⁸“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 10:19¹⁹I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 10:20²⁰Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone that I may find a little comfort,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 10:21²¹before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Job 10:22²²to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

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