Job 10:1-22 - Job Continues His Response To Bildad
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I will express my complaint
and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
“Do not declare me guilty!
Let me know why You prosecute me.
to reject the work of Your hands,
and favor
or do You see as a human sees?
or Your years like those of a man,
and search for my sin,
and that there is no one who can deliver from Your hand?
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Will You now turn and destroy me?
Will You now return me to dust?
and curdle me like cheese?
and wove me together with bones and tendons.
and Your care has guarded my life.
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I know that this was Your hidden plan:
and would not acquit me of my wrongdoing.
And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head.
I am filled with shame
and aware of my affliction.
and again display Your miraculous power against me.
and multiply Your anger toward me.
Hardships assault me, wave after wave.
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I should have died and never been seen.
but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
Leave me alone, so that I can smile a little
never to return.
gloomy and chaotic,
where even the light is like