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or wilt thou see as man saw?<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Are thy days as man's days? or thy years as the days of man?<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>That thou wilt seek for mine iniquity, and wilt search out for my sins?<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Upon thy knowledge that I will not do evil; and none delivering from thy hand.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Thy hands formed me, and they will work me together round about; and thou wilt swallow me down.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Remember now, thou didst make me as day; and thou wilt turn me back to dust.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Wilt thou not weigh me out as milk, and coagulate me as cheese?<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Thou wilt clothe me with skin and flesh, and thou wilt hedge me with bones and sinews.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Thou didst with me life and mercy, and thy reviewing watched my spirit.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And these thou didst hide in thy heart: I knew that this is with thee.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>If I sinned; and thou didst watch me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>If I did evil, wo to me; and was I just, I shall not lift up my head, being filled with dishonor: and see thou mine affliction;<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And shall it be lifted up? Thou wilt hunt me as the lion, and thou wilt turn back, thou wilt show thyself wonderful upon me.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Thou wilt renew thy testimonies before me, and thou wilt increase thy wrath upon me; changes and war with me.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And wherefore didst thou bring Me forth from the belly? I shall expire, and eye shall not see me.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>I shall be as I was not; I shall be brought from the womb to the grave.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Is it not my days few? He will cease; he will turn from me, and I shall be cheerful a little,<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Before I shall go and turn back to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/10-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>A land of darkness, as thick darkness; of the shadow of death, and not orders, and the brightness, as thick darkness.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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