Job 10

Berean Standard Bible

Chapter summary

Job continues his lament by expressing his bitter soul and declaring his intention to speak to God without being condemned. He questions why God oppresses and rejects the work of His hands while favoring the wicked, asking if God possesses human sight and lifespan. Job reminds God that He formed him like clay, clothed him with skin, flesh, bones, and sinews, and granted him life and preservation. Despite this careful creation, Job asserts that God watches for his sins and tracks his guilt, ensuring that he cannot be acquitted regardless of whether he is righteous or wicked. He states that any attempt to lift his head results in being hunted like a lion by God amid wave after wave of hardship. Finally, Job laments that he was ever brought from the womb and asks God to withdraw from him briefly to grant some comfort before he departs to the land of darkness and gloom from which he will never return.

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¹“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul. ²I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me. ³Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked? ⁴Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees? ⁵Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man, ⁶that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin— ⁷though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand? ⁸Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me? ⁹Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust? ¹⁰Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese? ¹¹You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. ¹²You have granted me life and loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit. ¹³Yet You concealed these things in Your heart, and I know that this was in Your mind: ¹⁴If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity. ¹⁵If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction. ¹⁶Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me. ¹⁷You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave. ¹⁸Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me! ¹⁹If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave. ²⁰Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort, ²¹before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom, ²²to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

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