Job 9:1
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Job 10:1-9
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Job: I Loathe My Life
10 “I loathe my life;
I will give free utterance to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.(A)
2 I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me;
let me know why you contend against me.(B)
3 Does it seem good to you to oppress,
to despise the work of your hands
and favor the schemes of the wicked?(C)
4 Do you have eyes of flesh?
Do you see as humans see?(D)
5 Are your days like the days of mortals
or your years like human years,(E)
6 that you seek out my iniquity
and search for my sin,
7 although you know that I am not guilty,
and there is no one to deliver out of your hand?(F)
8 Your hands fashioned and made me,
and now you turn and destroy me.[a](G)
9 Remember that you fashioned me like clay,
and will you turn me to dust again?(H)
Footnotes
- 10.8 Cn Compare Gk Syr: Heb made me together all around, and you destroy me
Job 10:16-22
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16 Bold as a lion you hunt me;
you repeat your exploits against me.(A)
17 You renew your witnesses against me
and increase your vexation toward me;
you bring fresh troops against me.[a](B)
18 “ ‘Why did you bring me forth from the womb?
Would that I had died before any eye had seen me(C)
19 and were as though I had not been,
carried from the womb to the grave.
20 Are not the days of my life few?[b]
Let me alone, that I may find a little comfort[c](D)
21 before I go, never to return,
to the land of gloom and deep darkness,
22 the land of gloom[d] and chaos,
where light is like darkness.’ ”
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