Job 10:1
“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 10:2
I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
Job 10:3
Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?
Job 10:4
Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?
Job 10:5
Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man,
Job 10:6
that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin—
Job 10:7
though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
Job 10:8
Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
Job 10:9
Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to 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 loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit.
Job 10:13
Yet You concealed these things in Your heart, and I know that this was in Your mind:
Job 10:14
If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.
Job 10:15
If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.
Job 10:16
Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.
Job 10:17
You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.
Job 10:18
Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
Job 10:19
If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
Job 10:20
Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,
Job 10:21
before I go—never to return—to a land of darkness and gloom,
Job 10:22
to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”