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| | Job 10:1 | "I am disgusted with my life. Let me complain freely. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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| | Job 10:2 | I will say to God, 'Don't simply condemn me--tell me the charge you are bringing against me.
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| | Job 10:3 | What do you gain by oppressing me? Why do you reject me, the work of your own hands, while sending joy and prosperity to the wicked?
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| | Job 10:4 | Are your eyes only those of a human? Do you see things as people see them?
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| | Job 10:5 | Is your lifetime merely human? Is your life so short
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| | Job 10:6 | that you are in a hurry to probe for my guilt, to search for my sin?
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| | Job 10:7 | Although you know I am not guilty, no one can rescue me from your power.
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| | Job 10:8 | " 'You formed me with your hands; you made me, and yet you completely destroy me.
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| | Job 10:9 | Remember that I am made of dust--will you turn me back to dust so soon?
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| | Job 10:10 | You guided my conception and formed me in the womb.
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| | Job 10:11 | You clothed me with skin and flesh, and you knit my bones and sinews together.
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| | Job 10:12 | You gave me life and showed me your unfailing love. My life was preserved by your care.
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| | Job 10:13 | " 'Yet your real motive--I know this was your intent--
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| | Job 10:14 | was to watch me, and if I sinned, you would not forgive my iniquity.
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| | Job 10:15 | If I am guilty, too bad for me. And even if I'm innocent, I am filled with shame and misery so that I can't hold my head high.
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| | Job 10:16 | And if I hold my head high, you hunt me like a lion and display your awesome power against me.
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| | Job 10:17 | Again and again you witness against me. You pour out an ever-increasing volume of anger upon me and bring fresh armies against me.
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| | Job 10:18 | " 'Why, then, did you bring me out of my mother's womb? Why didn't you let me die at birth?
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| | Job 10:19 | Then I would have been spared this miserable existence. I would have gone directly from the womb to the grave.
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| | Job 10:20 | I have only a little time left, so leave me alone--that I may have a little moment of comfort
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| | Job 10:21 | before I leave for the land of darkness and utter gloom, never to return.
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| | Job 10:22 | It is a land as dark as midnight, a land of utter gloom where confusion reigns and the light is as dark as midnight.' "
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