10Job 10

1My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.Select Job 10:1

2I say unto God, `Do not condemn me, Let me know why Thou dost strive with me.Select Job 10:2

3Is it good for Thee that Thou dost oppress? That Thou despisest the labour of Thy hands, And on the counsel of the wicked hast shone?Select Job 10:3

4Eyes of flesh hast Thou? As man seeth--seest Thou?Select Job 10:4

5As the days of man are Thy days? Thy years as the days of a man?Select Job 10:5

6That Thou inquirest for mine iniquity, And for my sin seekest?Select Job 10:6

7For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Thy hand.Select Job 10:7

8Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up!Select Job 10:8

9Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back.Select Job 10:9

10Dost Thou not as milk pour me out? And as cheese curdle me?Select Job 10:10

11Skin and flesh Thou dost put on me, And with bones and sinews dost fence me.Select Job 10:11

12Life and kindness Thou hast done with me. And Thy inspection hath preserved my spirit.Select Job 10:12

13And these Thou hast laid up in Thy heart, I have known that this is with Thee.Select Job 10:13

14If I sinned, then Thou hast observed me, And from mine iniquity dost not acquit me,Select Job 10:14

15If I have done wickedly--woe to me, And righteously--I lift not up my head, Full of shame--then see my affliction,Select Job 10:15

16And it riseth--as a lion Thou huntest me. And Thou turnest back--Thou shewest Thyself wonderful in me.Select Job 10:16

17Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare are with me.Select Job 10:17

18And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.Select Job 10:18

19As I had not been, I am, From the belly to the grave I am brought,Select Job 10:19

20Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,Select Job 10:20

21Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,Select Job 10:21

22A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade--and no order, And the shining is as thick darkness.'Select Job 10:22