JobChapter 10

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¹"I hate my own life.
I will let my complaint pour out.
I will speak from the bitterness of my soul. ²I will say to God: Do not condemn me!
Tell me why you bring charges against me. ³Does it make you happy to crush me?
Do you turn away from what your own hands made?
Do you smile on the plans of the wicked? ⁴Do you have human eyes?
Do you see the way people see? ⁵Are your days like the days of a human?
Are your years like a man's years? ⁶Is that why you look for my wrongs?
Is that why you search for my sin? ⁷You do this even though you know I am not guilty.
And no one can save me from your hand. ⁸Your hands shaped me and made me.
Will you now turn around and destroy me? ⁹Please remember that you shaped me like clay.
Will you now turn me back into dust? ¹⁰Didn't you pour me out like milk?
Didn't you make me thick like cheese? ¹¹You covered me with skin and flesh.
You knit me together with bones and muscles. ¹²You gave me life and faithful love.
Your care has kept my spirit alive. ¹³But you hid these things in your heart.
And I know that this was in your mind: ¹⁴If I sinned, you would be watching me.
You would not let me go free from my wrong. ¹⁵If I am guilty, how terrible for me!
Even if I am righteous, I can't lift up my head.
I am full of shame, and I see my misery. ¹⁶If I held my head up high, you would hunt me like a lion.
You would show your power against me again. ¹⁷You bring new witnesses against me.
You make your anger toward me grow.
Troubles attack me again and again, like waves. ¹⁸Then why did you bring me out of the womb?
I wish I had died before any eye saw me! ¹⁹I wish I had never lived.
I wish I had been carried from the womb straight to the grave. ²⁰Aren't my days few?
Turn away from me so I can have a little comfort. ²¹Let me have it before I go to a land of darkness and gloom.
I will never come back from there. ²²It is a land of deepest darkness.
It is a place of deep shadow and confusion.
There even the light is like darkness."