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will speak in the bitterness of my soul.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>I will say to God, Do not condemn me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">let me know why you contend against me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Does it seem good to you to oppress,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">to despise the work of your hands</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and favor the schemes of the wicked?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Do you have eyes of flesh?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Do you see as humans see?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Are your days like the days of mortals,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">or your years like human years,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>that you seek out my iniquity</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and search for my sin,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>although you know that I am not guilty,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and there is no one to deliver out of your hand?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Your hands fashioned and made me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and now you turn and destroy me.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15165a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Remember that you fashioned me like clay;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and will you turn me to dust again?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Did you not pour me out like milk</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and curdle me like cheese?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>You clothed me with skin and flesh,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and knit me together with bones and sinews.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>You have granted me life and steadfast love,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and your care has preserved my spirit.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Yet these things you hid in your heart;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I know that this was your purpose.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>If I sin, you watch me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and do not acquit me of my iniquity.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>If I am wicked, woe to me!</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">If I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head,</span></span><br /><span class="text">for I am filled with disgrace</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and look upon my affliction.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Bold as a lion you hunt me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">you repeat your exploits against me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>You renew your witnesses against me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and increase your vexation toward me;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">you bring fresh troops against me.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15174b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>“Why did you bring me forth from the womb?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Would that I had died before any eye had seen me,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>and were as though I had not been,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">carried from the womb to the grave.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>Are not the days of my life few?<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15177c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Let me alone, that I may find a little comfort<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15177d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>before I go, never to return,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">to the land of gloom and deep darkness,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>the land of gloom<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15179e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> and chaos,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">where light is like darkness.”</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 10:8">Job 10:8</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn Compare Gk Syr: Heb <i>made me together all around, and you destroy me</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 10:17">Job 10:17</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn Compare Gk: Heb <i>toward me; changes and a troop are with me</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 10:20">Job 10:20</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn Compare Gk Syr: Heb <i>Are not my days few? Let him cease!</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 10:20">Job 10:20</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>that I may brighten up a little</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 10:22">Job 10:22</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>gloom as darkness, deep darkness</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. 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