The Book of Job 10

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1 My soul is weary of my life I will leave my complaint upon myself I will speak in the bitterness of my soul ⚑

2 I will say unto God Do not condemn me shew me wherefore thou contendest with me ⚑

3 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands and shine upon the counsel of the wicked ⚑

4 Hast thou eyes of flesh or seest thou as man seeth ⚑

5 Are thy days as the days of man are thy years as man’s days ⚑

6 That thou enquirest after mine iniquity and searchest after my sin ⚑

7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand ⚑

8 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about yet thou dost destroy me ⚑

9 Remember I beseech thee that thou hast made me as the clay and wilt thou bring me into dust again ⚑

10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk and curdled me like cheese ⚑

11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh and hast fenced me with bones and sinews ⚑

12 Thou hast granted me life and favour and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit ⚑

13 And these things hast thou hid in thine heart I know that this is with thee ⚑

14 If I sin then thou markest me and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity ⚑

15 If I be wicked woe unto me and if I be righteous yet will I not lift up my head I am full of confusion therefore see thou mine affliction ⚑

16 For it increaseth Thou huntest me as a fierce lion and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me ⚑

17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me and increasest thine indignation upon me changes and war are against me ⚑

18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb Oh that I had given up the ghost and no eye had seen me ⚑

19 I should have been as though I had not been I should have been carried from the womb to the grave ⚑

20 Are not my days few cease then and let me alone that I may take comfort a little ⚑

21 Before I go whence I shall not return even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death ⚑

22 A land of darkness as darkness itself and of the shadow of death without any order and where the light is as darkness ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

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