10Job 10

CHAP. X. / 1 Iob, taking libertie of complaint, expostulateth with God about his afflictions. 18 Hee complaineth of life, and craueth a little ease before death.

1My soule is weary of my life, I will leaue my complaint vpon my selfe; I will speake in the bitternesse of my soule.Select Job 10:1

2I will say vnto God, Doe not condemne mee; shewe me wherefore thou contendest with me.Select Job 10:2

3Is it good vnto thee, that thou shouldest oppresse? that thou shouldest despise the worke of thine hands? and shine vpon the counsell of the wicked?Select Job 10:3

4Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?Select Job 10:4

5Are thy dayes as the dayes of man? are thy yeeres as mans dayes,Select Job 10:5

6That thou enquirest after mine iniquitie, and searchest after my sinne?Select Job 10:6

7Thou knowest that I am not wicked, and there is none that can deliuer out of thine hand.Select Job 10:7

8Thine hands haue made me and fashioned me together round about yet thou doest destroy me.Select Job 10:8

9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and wilt thou bring me into dust againe?Select Job 10:9

10Hast thou not powred me out as milke, and cruddled me like cheese?Select Job 10:10

11Thou hast cloathed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinewes.Select Job 10:11

12Thou hast granted me life and fauour, and thy visitation hath preserued my spirit.Select Job 10:12

13And these things hast thou hid in thine heart; I know that this is with thee.Select Job 10:13

14If I sinne, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquite me from mine iniquitie.Select Job 10:14

15If I be wicked, woe vnto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift vp my head: I am full of confusion, therefore see thou mine affliction:Select Job 10:15

16For it increaseth: thou huntest me as a fierce Lion: and againe thou shewest thy selfe marueilous vpon me.Select Job 10:16

17Thou renuest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation vpon me; Changes and warre are against me.Select Job 10:17

18Wherfore then hast thou brought me forth out of the wombe? Oh that I had giuen vp the ghost, and no eye had seene me!Select Job 10:18

19I should haue bene as though I had not bene, I should haue bene caried from the wombe to the graue.Select Job 10:19

20Are not my dayes few? cease then, and let me alone that I may take comfort a litle,Select Job 10:20

21Before I goe whence I shall not returne, euen to the land of darknes and the shadow of death,Select Job 10:21

22A land of darknes, as darknes it selfe, and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkenes.Select Job 10:22