Thematic Bible

Job 10:1

I am disgusted with my life.
I will express my complaint
and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 10:2

I will say to God:
“Do not declare me guilty!
Let me know why You prosecute me.

Job 10:3

Is it good for You to oppress,
to reject the work of Your hands,
and favor the plans of the wicked?

Job 10:4

Do You have eyes of flesh,
or do You see as a human sees?

Job 10:5

Are Your days like those of a human,
or Your years like those of a man,

Job 10:6

that You look for my wrongdoing
and search for my sin,

Job 10:7

even though You know that I am not wicked
and that there is no one who can deliver from Your hand?

Job 10:8

“Your hands shaped me and formed me.
Will You now turn and destroy me?

Job 10:9

Please remember that You formed me like clay.
Will You now return me to dust?

Job 10:10

Did You not pour me out like milk
and curdle me like cheese?

Job 10:11

You clothed me with skin and flesh,
and wove me together with bones and tendons.

Job 10:12

You gave me life and faithful love,
and Your care has guarded my life.

Job 10:13

“Yet You concealed these thoughts in Your heart;
I know that this was Your hidden plan:

Job 10:14

if I sin, You would notice,
and would not acquit me of my wrongdoing.

Job 10:15

If I am wicked, woe to me!
And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head.
I am filled with shame
and aware of my affliction.

Job 10:16

If I am proud, You hunt me like a lion
and again display Your miraculous power against me.

Job 10:17

You produce new witnesses against me
and multiply Your anger toward me.
Hardships assault me, wave after wave.

Job 10:18

“Why did You bring me out of the womb?
I should have died and never been seen.

Job 10:19

I wish I had never existed
but had been carried from the womb to the grave.

Job 10:20

Are my days not few? Stop it!
Leave me alone, so that I can smile a little

Job 10:21

before I go to a land of darkness and gloom,
never to return.

Job 10:22

It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness,
gloomy and chaotic,
where even the light is like the darkness.”