1 "My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. NHEB — Job 10:1
2 I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me. NHEB — Job 10:2
3 Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked? NHEB — Job 10:3
4 Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees? NHEB — Job 10:4
5 Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man's years, NHEB — Job 10:5
6 that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin? NHEB — Job 10:6
7 Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand. NHEB — Job 10:7
8 "'Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me. NHEB — Job 10:8
9 Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again? NHEB — Job 10:9
10 Haven't you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese? NHEB — Job 10:10
11 You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. NHEB — Job 10:11
12 You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit. NHEB — Job 10:12
13 Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you: NHEB — Job 10:13
14 if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity. NHEB — Job 10:14
15 If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction. NHEB — Job 10:15
16 And if I lift myself up, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me. NHEB — Job 10:16
17 You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me. NHEB — Job 10:17
18 "'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me. NHEB — Job 10:18
19 I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. NHEB — Job 10:19
20 Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort, NHEB — Job 10:20
21 before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; NHEB — Job 10:21
22 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'" NHEB — Job 10:22