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God,</p><p class="poem">“Do not declare me guilty!</p><p class="poem">Let me know why you prosecute me.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.10.3" /> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Is it good for you to oppress,</p><p class="poem">to reject the work of your hands,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.10.3.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">and favor<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Job.10.3.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> the plans of the wicked?<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.10.3.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.10.4" /> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Do you have eyes of flesh,</p><p class="poem">or do you see as a human sees?</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.10.5" /> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Are your days like those of a human,</p><p class="poem">or your years like those of a man,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.10.5.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.10.6" /> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>that you look for my iniquity<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.10.6.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">and search for my sin,</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.10.7" /> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>even though you know that I am not wicked</p><p class="poem">and that there is no one who can rescue from your power?<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.10.7.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p></blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.10.8" /> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“Your hands shaped me and formed me.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.10.8.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">Will you now turn and destroy me?</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.10.9" /> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Please remember that you formed me like clay.</p><p class="poem">Will you now return me to dust?<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.10.9.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.10.10" /> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Did you not pour me out like milk</p><p class="poem">and curdle me like cheese?</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.10.11" /> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>You clothed me with skin and flesh,</p><p class="poem">and wove me together with bones and tendons.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.10.11.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.10.12" /> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>You gave me life and faithful love,</p><p class="poem">and your care has guarded my life.</p></blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.10.13" /> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“Yet you concealed these thoughts in your heart;</p><p class="poem">I know that this was your hidden plan:<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Job.10.13.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.10.14" /> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>if I sin, you would notice,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Job.10.14.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a></p><p class="poem">and would not acquit me of my iniquity.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.10.14.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.10.15" /> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>If I am wicked, woe to me!</p><p class="poem">And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head.</p><p class="poem">I am filled with shame<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.10.15.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">and have drunk deeply of<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Job.10.15.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> my affliction.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.10.15.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.10.16" /> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>If I am proud,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Job.10.16.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> you hunt me like a lion</p><p class="poem">and again display your miraculous power against me.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.10.16.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.10.17" /> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>You produce new witnesses<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Job.10.17.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> against me</p><p class="poem">and multiply your anger toward me.</p><p class="poem">Hardships assault me, wave after wave.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Job.10.17.2"><span class="fnAlphabet">B</span></a></p></blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.10.18" /> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“Why did you bring me out of the womb?<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.10.18.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">I should have died and never been seen.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.10.19" /> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>I wish<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Job.10.19.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> I had never existed</p><p class="poem">but had been carried from the womb to the grave.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.10.19.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.10.20" /> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Are my days not few? Stop it!<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Job.10.20.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a></p><p class="poem">Leave me alone, so that I can smile a little</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.10.21" /> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>before I go to a land of darkness and gloom,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Job.10.21.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">never to return.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Job.10.22" /> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness,</p><p class="poem">gloomy and chaotic,</p><p class="poem">where even the light is like<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Job.10.22.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> the darkness.”</p></blockquote><br /><section id="footnotes-Job.10" class="fnSection"><aside id="fn.Job.10.3.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Job.10.3">10:3</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">shine on</span></aside><aside id="fn.Job.10.13.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Job.10.13">10:13</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">was with you</span></aside><aside id="fn.Job.10.14.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Job.10.14">10:14</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">notice me</span></aside><aside id="fn.Job.10.15.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Job.10.15">10:15</a></span> Or <span class="italic">and look at</span></aside><aside id="fn.Job.10.16.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Job.10.16">10:16</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">If he lifts up</span></aside><aside id="fn.Job.10.17.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Job.10.17">10:17</a></span> Or <span class="italic">You bring fresh troops</span></aside><aside id="fn.Job.10.17.2"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Job.10.17">10:17</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">Changes and a host are with me</span></aside><aside id="fn.Job.10.19.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Job.10.19">10:19</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">As if</span></aside><aside id="fn.Job.10.20.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Job.10.20">10:20</a></span> Alt Hb tradition reads <span class="italic">Will he not leave my few days alone?</span></aside><aside id="fn.Job.10.22.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Job.10.22">10:22</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">chaotic, and shines as</span></aside><br /><section id="cross-references-Job.10" class="xrfSection"><aside id="xrf.Job.10.1.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Job.10.1">10:1</a></span> Jb 7:16; 9:21; Ps 95:10; 119:158; 139:21; Ezk 6:9; 20:43; 36:31</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.10.3.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Job.10.3">10:3</a></span> Ps 128:2</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.10.3.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Job.10.3">10:3</a></span> Ps 1:1; Jb 21:16; 22:18</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.10.5.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Job.10.5">10:5</a></span> Jb 36:26; Ps 90:4; 2Pt 3:8</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.10.6.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Job.10.6">10:6</a></span> Jb 13:23,26; 14:17; 22:5</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.10.7.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Job.10.7">10:7</a></span> Dt 32:39; Is 43:13</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.10.8.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Job.10.8">10:8</a></span> Gn 2:7,8,19; Ps 34:15; 94:9; Is 29:16; 43:1,7,21; 44:2,21,24; 45:9,11; 49:5; 64:8; Jr 1:5; 18:6; Zch 12:1</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.10.9.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Job.10.9">10:9</a></span> Gn 2:7; Jb 4:19; 34:15</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.10.11.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Job.10.11">10:11</a></span> Ps 139:13</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.10.14.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Job.10.14">10:14</a></span> Ex 34:7; Jb 7:21; Am 3:2</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.10.15.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Job.10.15">10:15</a></span> Hab 2:16</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.10.15.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Job.10.15">10:15</a></span> Jb 9:15; Ps 25:18; Is 3:11</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.10.16.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Job.10.16">10:16</a></span> Jb 5:9; Is 38:13; Lm 3:10</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.10.18.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Job.10.18">10:18</a></span> Jb 1:21; 10:18–19; Jr 20:17–18</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.10.19.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Job.10.19">10:19</a></span> Jb 3:22; 5:26; 17:1</aside><aside id="xrf.Job.10.21.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Job.10.21">10:21</a></span> Jb 3:5; 12:22; 28:3</aside><br /><section id="study-notes-Job.10" class="snSection"><br /></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Christian Standard Bible. 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