Thematic Bible

Job 10:1

"I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 10:2

I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.

Job 10:3

Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked?

Job 10:4

Have you eyes of flesh? Do you see as man sees?

Job 10:5

Are your days as the days of man, or your years as a man's years,

Job 10:6

that you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin,

Job 10:7

although you know that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of your hand?

Job 10:8

Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether.

Job 10:9

Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the 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 knit me together with bones and sinews.

Job 10:12

You have granted me life and steadfast love, and your care has preserved my spirit.

Job 10:13

Yet these things you hid in your heart; I know that this was your purpose.

Job 10:14

If I sin, you watch me and do not acquit me of my iniquity.

Job 10:15

If I am guilty, woe to me! If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look on my affliction.

Job 10:16

And were my head lifted up, you would hunt me like a lion and again work wonders against me.

Job 10:17

You renew your witnesses against me and increase your vexation toward me; you bring fresh troops against me.

Job 10:18

"Why did you bring me out from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me

Job 10:19

and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.

Job 10:20

Are not my days few? Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer

Job 10:21

before I go--and I shall not return-- to the land of darkness and deep shadow,

Job 10:22

the land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is as thick darkness."