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Job Despairs of God’s Dealings

1 Job 10:1 “I loathe my own life; I will give full vent to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

2 Job 10:2 “I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me; Let me know why You contend with me.

3 Job 10:3 ‘Is it right for You indeed to oppress, To reject the labor of Your hands, And to look favorably on the schemes of the wicked?

4 Job 10:4 ‘Have You eyes of flesh? Or do You see as a man sees?

5 Job 10:5 ‘Are Your days as the days of a mortal, Or Your years as man’s years,

6 Job 10:6 That You should seek for my guilt And search after my sin?

7 Job 10:7 ‘According to Your knowledge I am indeed not guilty, Yet there is no deliverance from Your hand.

8 Job 10:8 ‘Your hands fashioned and made me altogether, And would You destroy me?

9 Job 10:9 ‘Remember now, that You have made me as clay; And would You turn me into dust again?

10 Job 10:10 ‘Did You not pour me out like milk And curdle me like cheese;

11 Job 10:11 Clothe me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews?

12 Job 10:12 ‘You have granted me life and lovingkindness; And Your care has preserved my spirit.

13 Job 10:13 ‘Yet these things You have concealed in Your heart; I know that this is within You:

14 Job 10:14 If I sin, then You would take note of me, And would not acquit me of my guilt.

15 Job 10:15 ‘If I am wicked, woe to me! And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head. I am sated with disgrace and conscious of my misery.

16 Job 10:16 ‘Should my head be lifted up, You would hunt me like a lion; And again You would show Your power against me.

17 Job 10:17 ‘You renew Your witnesses against me And increase Your anger toward me; Hardship after hardship is with me.

18 Job 10:18 ‘Why then have You brought me out of the womb? Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!

19 Job 10:19 ‘I should have been as though I had not been, Carried from womb to tomb.’

20 Job 10:20 “Would He not let my few days alone? Withdraw from me that I may have a little cheer

21 Job 10:21 Before I go—and I shall not return— To the land of darkness and deep shadow,

22 Job 10:22 The land of utter gloom as darkness itself, Of deep shadow without order, And which shines as the darkness.”

Scripture quotations taken from the (NASB®) New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. www.lockman.org