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| | Job 10:1 | "I loathe my own life; I will give full vent to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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| | Job 10:2 | "I will say to God, 'Do not condemn me; Let me know why You contend with me.
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| | Job 10:3 | 'Is it right for You indeed to oppress, To reject the labor of Your hands, And to look favorably on the schemes of the wicked?
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| | Job 10:4 | 'Have You eyes of flesh? Or do You see as a man sees?
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| | Job 10:5 | 'Are Your days as the days of a mortal, Or Your years as man's years,
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| | Job 10:6 | That You should seek for my guilt And search after my sin?
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| | Job 10:7 | 'According to Your knowledge I am indeed not guilty, Yet there is no deliverance from Your hand.
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| | Job 10:8 | 'Your hands fashioned and made me altogether, And would You destroy me?
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| | Job 10:9 | 'Remember now, that You have made me as clay; And would You turn me into dust again?
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| | Job 10:10 | 'Did You not pour me out like milk And curdle me like cheese;
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| | Job 10:11 | Clothe me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews?
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| | Job 10:12 | 'You have granted me life and lovingkindness; And Your care has preserved my spirit.
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| | Job 10:13 | 'Yet these things You have concealed in Your heart; I know that this is within You:
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| | Job 10:14 | If I sin, then You would take note of me, And would not acquit me of my guilt.
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| | Job 10:15 | 'If I am wicked, woe to me! And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head. I am sated with disgrace and conscious of my misery.
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| | Job 10:16 | 'Should my head be lifted up, You would hunt me like a lion; And again You would show Your power against me.
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| | Job 10:17 | 'You renew Your witnesses against me And increase Your anger toward me; Hardship after hardship is with me.
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| | Job 10:18 | 'Why then have You brought me out of the womb? Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!
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| | Job 10:19 | 'I should have been as though I had not been, Carried from womb to tomb.'
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| | Job 10:20 | "Would He not let my few days alone? Withdraw from me that I may have a little cheer
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| | Job 10:21 | Before I go--and I shall not return-- To the land of darkness and deep shadow,
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| | Job 10:22 | The land of utter gloom as darkness itself, Of deep shadow without order, And which shines as the darkness."
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| Scripture quotations taken from the NASB. |
