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I will release my words against myself. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>I will say to God: Do not be willing to condemn me. Reveal to me why you judge me this way.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Does it seem good to you, if you find fault with me and oppress me, the work of your own hands, and assist the counsel of the impious?<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Do you have bodily eyes? Or, just as man sees, will you see?<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Are your days just like the days of man, and are your years as the times of humans,<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>so that you would inquire about my iniquity and examine my sin?<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And you know that I have done nothing impious, yet there is no one who can deliver from your hand.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Your hands have made me and formed me all around, and, in this way, do you suddenly throw me away?<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Remember, I ask you, that you have fashioned me like clay, and you will reduce me to dust.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Have you not extracted me like milk and curdled me like cheese?<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>You have clothed me with skin and flesh. You have put me together with bones and nerves.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>You have assigned to me life and mercy, and your visitation has preserved my spirit.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Though you may conceal this in your heart, yet I know that you remember everything.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>If I have sinned, and you have spared me for an hour, why do you not endure me to be clean from my iniquity?<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And if I should be impious, woe to me, and if I should be just, I will not lift up my head, being drenched with affliction and misery.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And because of pride, you will seize me like a lioness, and having returned, you torment me to an extraordinary degree.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>You renew your testimony against me, and you multiply your wrath against me, and these punishments make war within me.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Why did you lead me out of the womb? If only I had been consumed, so that no eye would ever see me!<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>I should have been as if I had not been: transferred from the womb to the tomb.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Will not my few days be completed soon? Release me, therefore, so that I may lament my sorrows a little,<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>before I depart and return no more to a land that is dark and covered with the fog of death,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>a land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and nothing else but everlasting horror, dwells.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></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="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>