Thematic Bible
Job 10:1 (show verse)
I loathe my very life. I will therefore give free rein to my complaint and speak out in my bitterness.
Job 10:2 (show verse)
I will say to God: 'Do not condemn me, but tell me what charges you have against me.
Job 10:3 (show verse)
Does it please you to oppress me, to spurn the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?
Job 10:4 (show verse)
Do you have eyes of flesh? Do you see as a man sees?
Job 10:5 (show verse)
Are your days like those of a mortal or are your years like those of a man?
Job 10:6 (show verse)
Must you search out my faults and probe after my sin?
Job 10:7 (show verse)
You know that I am not guilty and that no one can force me from your hand!
Job 10:8 (show verse)
Your hands formed me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me?
Job 10:9 (show verse)
Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again?
Job 10:10 (show verse)
Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese,
Job 10:11 (show verse)
clothe me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews?
Job 10:12 (show verse)
You granted me life and showed me kindness. Your providence preserved my spirit.
Job 10:13 (show verse)
Yet this is what you concealed in your heart, and I know that this was in your mind:
Job 10:14 (show verse)
If I sinned, you would be watching me and would not let my offense go unpunished.
Job 10:15 (show verse)
If I am wicked, woe to me! Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head, for I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.
Job 10:16 (show verse)
If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lion and again display your awesome power against me.
Job 10:17 (show verse)
You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger toward me. Your forces come against me wave upon wave.
Job 10:18 (show verse)
Why then did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died before anyone saw me.
Job 10:19 (show verse)
If only I had never come into being, or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!'
Job 10:20 (show verse)
Are not my days few in number? Turn away from me so I can have a moment's joy
Job 10:21 (show verse)
before I go to the place of no return, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,
Job 10:22 (show verse)
to the land of dark night, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.