CINXE.COM

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Job 10 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/job/10.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/job/10-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Job 10</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../job/9.htm" title="Job 9">◄</a> Job 10 <a href="../job/11.htm" title="Job 11">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/job/10.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Job Frames His Plea to God</p><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“I am disgusted with my life.</p><p class="line2">Let me complain freely.</p><p class="line2">My bitter soul must complain.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>I will say to God, ‘Don’t simply condemn me—</p><p class="line2">tell me the charge you are bringing against me.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>What do you gain by oppressing me?</p><p class="line2">Why do you reject me, the work of your own hands,</p><p class="line2">while smiling on the schemes of the wicked?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Are your eyes like those of a human?</p><p class="line2">Do you see things only as people see them?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Is your lifetime only as long as ours?</p><p class="line2">Is your life so short</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>that you must quickly probe for my guilt</p><p class="line2">and search for my sin?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Although you know I am not guilty,</p><p class="line2">no one can rescue me from your hands.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“‘You formed me with your hands; you made me,</p><p class="line2">yet now you completely destroy me.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Remember that you made me from dust—</p><p class="line2">will you turn me back to dust so soon?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>You guided my conception</p><p class="line2">and formed me in the womb.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a></p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>You clothed me with skin and flesh,</p><p class="line2">and you knit my bones and sinews together.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>You gave me life and showed me your unfailing love.</p><p class="line2">My life was preserved by your care.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“‘Yet your real motive—</p><p class="line2">your true intent—</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>was to watch me, and if I sinned,</p><p class="line2">you would not forgive my guilt.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>If I am guilty, too bad for me;</p><p class="line2">and even if I’m innocent, I can’t hold my head high,</p><p class="line2">because I am filled with shame and misery.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And if I hold my head high, you hunt me like a lion</p><p class="line2">and display your awesome power against me.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Again and again you witness against me.</p><p class="line2">You pour out your growing anger on me</p><p class="line2">and bring fresh armies against me.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“‘Why, then, did you deliver me from my mother’s womb?</p><p class="line2">Why didn’t you let me die at birth?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>It would be as though I had never existed,</p><p class="line2">going directly from the womb to the grave.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>I have only a few days left, so leave me alone,</p><p class="line2">that I may have a moment of comfort</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>before I leave—never to return—</p><p class="line2">for the land of darkness and utter gloom.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>It is a land as dark as midnight,</p><p class="line2">a land of gloom and confusion,</p><p class="line2">where even the light is dark as midnight.’”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:10 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">You poured me out like milk / and curdled me like cheese.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of <a href="http://www.tyndale.com">Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.</a>, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/9.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 9"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 9" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/11.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 11"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 11" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/job/10-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>