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Job 10

Job Despairs of God's Dealings

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1 aI loathe my own life; I will give full vent to  bmy complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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"I will say to God, ` aDo not condemn me; Let me know why You contend with me.

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`Is it  1right for You indeed to  aoppress, To reject  bthe labor of Your hands, And  2to look favorably on  cthe schemes of the wicked?

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`Have You eyes of flesh? Or do You  asee as a man sees?

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`Are Your days as the days of a mortal, Or  aYour years as man's years,

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That  aYou should seek for my guilt And search after my sin?

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`According to Your knowledge  aI am indeed not guilty, Yet there is  bno deliverance from Your hand.

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aYour hands fashioned and made me  1altogether,  bAnd would You destroy me?

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`Remember now, that You have made me as  aclay; And would You  bturn me into dust again?

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`Did You not pour me out like milk And curdle me like cheese;

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Clothe me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews?

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`You have  agranted me life and lovingkindness; And Your care has preserved my spirit.

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`Yet  athese things You have concealed in Your heart; I know that this is within You:

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If I sin, then You would  atake note of me, And  bwould not acquit me of my guilt.

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`If  aI am wicked, woe to me! And  bif I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head. I am sated with disgrace and  1conscious of my misery.

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`Should my head be lifted up,  aYou would hunt me like a lion; And again You would show Your  bpower against me.

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`You renew  aYour witnesses against me And increase Your anger toward me;  1 bHardship after hardship is with me.

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aWhy then have You brought me out of the womb? Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!

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`I should have been as though I had not been, Carried from womb to tomb.'

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"Would He not let  amy few days alone?  1 bWithdraw from me that I may have a little cheer

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Before I go-- aand I shall not return--  bTo the land of darkness and  cdeep shadow,

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The land of utter gloom as darkness itself, Of deep shadow without order, And which shines as the darkness."



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