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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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/job/10.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Job Continues: A Plea to God</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“I loathe my life;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I will give free utterance to my complaint;</span><br /><span class="indent">I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I will say to God, Do not condemn me;</span><br /><span class="indent">let me know why you contend against me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Does it seem good to you to oppress,</span><br /><span class="indent">to despise the work of your hands</span><br /><span class="indent">and favor the designs of the wicked?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Have you eyes of flesh?</span><br /><span class="indent">Do you see as man sees?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Are your days as the days of man,</span><br /><span class="indent">or your years as a man’s years,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">that you seek out my iniquity</span><br /><span class="indent">and search for my sin,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">although you know that I am not guilty,</span><br /><span class="indent">and there is none to deliver out of your hand?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Your hands fashioned and made me,</span><br /><span class="indent">and now you have destroyed me altogether.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Remember that you have made me like clay;</span><br /><span class="indent">and will you return me to the dust?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Did you not pour me out like milk</span><br /><span class="indent">and curdle me like cheese?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You clothed me with skin and flesh,</span><br /><span class="indent">and knit me together with bones and sinews.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You have granted me life and steadfast love,</span><br /><span class="indent">and your care has preserved my spirit.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Yet these things you hid in your heart;</span><br /><span class="indent">I know that this was your purpose.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">If I sin, you watch me</span><br /><span class="indent">and do not acquit me of my iniquity.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">If I am guilty, woe to me!</span><br /><span class="indent">If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for I am filled with disgrace</span><br /><span class="indent">and look on my affliction.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And were my head lifted up,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew lacks my head">a</a></sup></span> you would hunt me like a lion</span><br /><span class="indent">and again work wonders against me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You renew your witnesses against me</span><br /><span class="indent">and increase your vexation toward me;</span><br /><span class="indent">you bring fresh troops against me.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Why did you bring me out from the womb?</span><br /><span class="indent">Would that I had died before any eye had seen me</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">and were as though I had not been,</span><br /><span class="indent">carried from the womb to the grave.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Are not my days few?</span><br /><span class="indent">Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">before I go—and I shall not return—</span><br /><span class="indent">to the land of darkness and deep shadow,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/10-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">the land of gloom like thick darkness,</span><br /><span class="indent">like deep shadow without any order,</span><br /><span class="indent">where light is as thick darkness.”</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> Hebrew lacks <i class="catch-word">my head</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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