Thematic Bible
Job 10:1 (show verse)
"I am disgusted with living, so I'm going to talk about my complaint freely. I'll speak out from the bitterness of my soul.
Job 10:2 (show verse)
I'll say to God, "Don't condemn me! Let me know why you are fighting me.
Job 10:3 (show verse)
Does it delight you to oppress or despise what you have made, while you smile at the plans of the wicked?
Job 10:4 (show verse)
Do you have eyes made of flesh? Can you look at things as humans do?
Job 10:5 (show verse)
Can you live only as long as a human being? Or live the years of a mortal man?
Job 10:6 (show verse)
""For you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin.
Job 10:7 (show verse)
Although you know that I'm not guilty, there's no one to deliver me from you!
Job 10:8 (show verse)
Your hands formed and fashioned me, but then you have destroyed me all at once on all sides.
Job 10:9 (show verse)
""Please remember that you've made me like clay and you'll return me to dust.
Job 10:10 (show verse)
Didn't you pour me out like milk and let me congeal like cheese?
Job 10:11 (show verse)
You covered me with skin and flesh, weaving me together with bones and sinews.
Job 10:12 (show verse)
You gave life and gracious love to me; your providential care has preserved my spirit.
Job 10:13 (show verse)
But you've hidden these things in your heart I know this was your purpose:
Job 10:14 (show verse)
If I sin, you watch me and won't acquit me for my iniquity.
Job 10:15 (show verse)
""Woe to me if I'm guilty! If I'm innocent, I cannot lift my head, because I am filled with disgrace. Look at my affliction!
Job 10:16 (show verse)
But if I do lift up my head, you will hunt me like a lion! You will perform miracles in order to fight against me.
Job 10:17 (show verse)
""You have brought new witnesses against me, you're even more angry with me you've brought fresh troops to attack me!
Job 10:18 (show verse)
So why did you bring me out from the womb? I wish I had died, before anyone had seen me,
Job 10:19 (show verse)
as if I had never existed; carried from the womb to the grave.
Job 10:20 (show verse)
My days are so few, aren't they? So leave me alone, then, so I can smile a little
Job 10:21 (show verse)
before I go, never to return, leaving for the land of deep darkness and shadow.
Job 10:22 (show verse)
It's a gloomy land, like deepest darkness; where there's no order, and where even the brightness is like darkness.'"