Job 10

1My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. {weary...: or, cut off while I live}● 2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.● 3{Is it} good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked? {work: Heb. labour}● 4Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?● 5{Are} thy days as the days of man? {are} thy years as man's days,● 6That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?● 7Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and {there is} none that can deliver out of thine hand. {Thou...: Heb. It is upon thy knowledge}● 8Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. {have...: Heb. took pains about me}● 9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?● 10Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?● 11Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews. {fenced: Heb. hedged}● 12Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.● 13And these {things} hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this {is} with thee.● 14If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.● 15If I be wicked, woe unto me; and {if} I be righteous, {yet} will I not lift up my head. {I am} full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;● 16For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.● 17Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war {are} against me. {witnesses: that is, plagues}● 18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!● 19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.● 20{Are} not my days few? cease {then, and} let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,● 21Before I go {whence} I shall not return, {even} to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;● 22A land of darkness, as darkness {itself; and} of the shadow of death, without any order, and {where} the light {is} as darkness.●