RSV Job 10 Chapter
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'I loathe my life;I will give free utterance to my complaint;I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
10:2
I will say to God, Do not condemn me;let me know why thou dost contend against me.
10:3
Does it seem good to thee to oppress, to despise the work of thy hands and favor the designs of the wicked?
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Hast thou eyes of flesh? Dost thou see as man sees?
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Are thy days as the days of man, or thy years as man's years,
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that thou dost seek out my iniquity and search for my sin,
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although thou knowest that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of thy hand?
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Thy hands fashioned and made me;and now thou dost turn about and destroy me.
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Remember that thou hast made me of clay;and wilt thou turn me to dust again?
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Didst thou not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?
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Thou didst clothe me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
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Thou hast granted me life and steadfast love;and thy care has preserved my spirit.
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Yet these things thou didst hide in thy heart;I know that this was thy purpose.
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If I sin, thou dost mark me, and dost not acquit me of my iniquity.
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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.
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And if I lift myself up, thou dost hunt me like a lion, and again work wonders against me;
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thou dost renew thy witnesses against me, and increase thy vexation toward me;thou dost bring fresh hosts against me.
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'Why didst thou bring me forth from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me,
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and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.
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Are not the days of my life few? Let me alone, that I may find a little comfort
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before I go whence I shall not return, to the land of gloom and deep darkness,
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the land of gloom and chaos, where light is as darkness.'