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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="/bmcc/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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><p class="q1"><span class="v18_10_1"><span class="reftext" id="Job.10.1" class="v18_10_1">1</span>I am tired of living.</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_10_1">Listen to my bitter complaint.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_10_2"><span class="reftext" id="Job.10.2" class="v18_10_2">2</span>Don't condemn me, God.</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_10_2">Tell me! What is the charge against me?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_10_3"><span class="reftext" id="Job.10.3" class="v18_10_3">3</span>Is it right for you to be so cruel?</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_10_3">To despise what you yourself have made?</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_10_3">And then to smile on the schemes of wicked people?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_10_4"><span class="reftext" id="Job.10.4" class="v18_10_4">4</span>Do you see things as we do?</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_10_5"><span class="reftext" id="Job.10.5" class="v18_10_5">5</span>Is your life as short as ours?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_10_6"><span class="reftext" id="Job.10.6" class="v18_10_6">6</span>Then why do you track down all my sins</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_10_6">and hunt down every fault I have?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_10_7"><span class="reftext" id="Job.10.7" class="v18_10_7">7</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Job.10.7!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> You know that I am not guilty,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_10_7">that no one can save me from you.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_10_8"><span class="reftext" id="Job.10.8" class="v18_10_8">8</span>Your hands formed and shaped me,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_10_8">and now<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.10.8!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> those same hands destroy me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_10_9"><span class="reftext" id="Job.10.9" class="v18_10_9">9</span>Remember that you made me from clay;<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.10.9!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_10_9">are you going to crush me back to dust?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_10_10"><span class="reftext" id="Job.10.10" class="v18_10_10">10</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Job.10.10!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> You gave my father strength to beget me;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_10_10">you made me grow in my mother's womb.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_10_11"><span class="reftext" id="Job.10.11" class="v18_10_11">11</span>You formed my body with bones and sinews</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_10_11">and covered the bones with muscles and skin.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_10_12"><span class="reftext" id="Job.10.12" class="v18_10_12">12</span>You have given me life and constant love,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_10_12">and your care has kept me alive.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_10_13"><span class="reftext" id="Job.10.13" class="v18_10_13">13</span>But now I know that all that time</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_10_13">you were secretly planning to harm me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_10_14"><span class="reftext" id="Job.10.14" class="v18_10_14">14</span>You were watching to see if I would sin,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_10_14">so that you could refuse to forgive me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_10_15"><span class="reftext" id="Job.10.15" class="v18_10_15">15</span>As soon as I sin, I'm in trouble with you,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_10_15">but when I do right, I get no credit.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_10_15">I am miserable and covered with shame.<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.10.15!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_10_16"><span class="reftext" id="Job.10.16" class="v18_10_16">16</span>If I have any success at all,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_10_16">you hunt me down like a lion;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_10_16">to hurt me you even work miracles.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_10_17"><span class="reftext" id="Job.10.17" class="v18_10_17">17</span>You always have some witness against me;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_10_17">your anger toward me grows and grows;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_10_17">you always plan some new attack.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_10_18"><span class="reftext" id="Job.10.18" class="v18_10_18">18</span>Why, God, did you let me be born?</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_10_18">I should have died before anyone saw me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_10_19"><span class="reftext" id="Job.10.19" class="v18_10_19">19</span>To go from the womb straight to the grave</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_10_19">would have been as good as never existing.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_10_20"><span class="reftext" id="Job.10.20" class="v18_10_20">20</span>Isn't my life almost over? Leave me alone!</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_10_20">Let me enjoy the time I have left.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_10_21"><span class="reftext" id="Job.10.21" class="v18_10_21">21</span>I am going soon and will never come back—</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_10_21">going to a land that is dark and gloomy,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_10_22"><span class="reftext" id="Job.10.22" class="v18_10_22">22</span>a land of darkness, shadows, and confusion,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_10_22">where the light itself is darkness.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">10.8: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Some ancient translations </char><char style="fq" closed="false">and now; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">together.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">10.9: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One ancient translation </char><char style="fq" closed="false">from clay; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">like clay.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">10.15: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Probable text </char><char style="fq" closed="false">covered with shame; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">see my shame.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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