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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">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/job/10.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Job Asks God to Acquit Him</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“I am disgusted with living,</p> <p class="poetry2">so I’m going to talk about my complaint freely.</p> <p class="poetry2">I’ll speak out from the bitterness of my soul.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>I’ll say to God,</p> <p class="poetry2">‘Don’t condemn me!</p> <p class="poetry2">Let me know why you are fighting me.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Does it delight you to oppress</p> <p class="poetry2">or despise what you have made,</p> <p class="poetry2">while you smile at the plans of the wicked?<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:3 Lit. you cause the plans of the wicked to shine">a</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Do you have eyes made of flesh?</p> <p class="poetry2">Can you look at things as humans do?</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Can you live only as long as a human being?</p> <p class="poetry2">Or live the years<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:5 Lit. days">b</a></span> of a mortal man?</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“‘For you seek out my iniquity</p> <p class="poetry2">and search for my sin.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Although you know that I’m not guilty,</p> <p class="poetry2">there’s no one to deliver me from you!<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:7 Lit. from your hand">c</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Your hands formed and fashioned me,</p> <p class="poetry2">but then you have destroyed me all at once on all sides.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“‘Please remember that you’ve made me like clay</p> <p class="poetry2">and you’ll return me to dust.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Didn’t you pour me out like milk</p> <p class="poetry2">and let me congeal like cheese?</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>You covered me with skin and flesh,</p> <p class="poetry2">weaving me together with bones and sinews.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>You gave life and gracious love to me;</p> <p class="poetry2">your providential care has preserved my spirit.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But you’ve hidden these things in your heart—</p> <p class="poetry2">I know this was your purpose:<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:13 Or was in you">d</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>If I sin, you watch me</p> <p class="poetry2">and won’t acquit me for my iniquity.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“‘Woe to me if I’m guilty!</p> <p class="poetry2">If I’m innocent, I cannot lift my head,</p> <p class="poetry2">because I am filled with disgrace.</p> <p class="poetry2">Look at my affliction!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But if I do lift up my head,</p> <p class="poetry2">you will hunt me like a lion!</p> <p class="poetry2">You will perform miracles in order to fight against me.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“‘You have brought new witnesses against me,</p> <p class="poetry2">you’re even more angry with me—</p> <p class="poetry2">you’ve brought fresh troops to attack me!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>So why did you bring me out from the womb?</p> <p class="poetry2">I wish I had died, before anyone had seen me,</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>as if I had never existed;</p> <p class="poetry2">carried from the womb to the grave.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>My days are so few, aren’t they?</p> <p class="poetry2">So leave me alone, then,</p> <p class="poetry2">so I can smile a little</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>before I go, never to return,</p> <p class="poetry2">leaving for the land of deep darkness and shadow.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>It’s a gloomy land, like deepest darkness;</p> <p class="poetry2">where there’s no order,</p> <p class="poetry2">and where even<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:22 The Heb. lacks even">e</a></span> the brightness is like darkness.’”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 10:3 Lit. <i>you cause the plans of the wicked to shine</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 10:5 Lit. <i>days</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 10:7 Lit. <i>from your hand</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 10:13 Or <i>was in you</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 10:22 The Heb. lacks <i>even</i><br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.<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" 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