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Job 10

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¹ I am disgusted with my life. ⓗ I will give vent to my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

² I will say to God, “Do not declare me guilty! Let me know why you prosecute me.

³ Is it good for you to oppress, to reject the work of your hands, ⓘ and favor [1] the plans of the wicked? ⓙ

⁴ Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as a human sees?

⁵ Are your days like those of a human, or your years like those of a man, ⓚ

⁶ that you look for my iniquity ⓛ and search for my sin,

⁷ even though you know that I am not wicked and that there is no one who can rescue from your power? ⓜ

⁸ “Your hands shaped me and formed me. ⓝ Will you now turn and destroy me?

⁹ Please remember that you formed me like clay. Will you now return me to dust? ⓐ

¹⁰ Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?

¹¹ You clothed me with skin and flesh, and wove me together with bones and tendons. ⓑ

¹² You gave me life and faithful love, and your care has guarded my life.

¹³ “Yet you concealed these thoughts in your heart; I know that this was your hidden plan: [2]

¹⁴ if I sin, you would notice, [3] and would not acquit me of my iniquity. ⓒ

¹⁵ If I am wicked, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head. I am filled with shame ⓓ and have drunk deeply of [4] my affliction. ⓔ

¹⁶ If I am proud, [5] you hunt me like a lion and again display your miraculous power against me. ⓕ

¹⁷ You produce new witnesses [6] against me and multiply your anger toward me. Hardships assault me, wave after wave. [7]

¹⁸ “Why did you bring me out of the womb? ⓖ I should have died and never been seen.

¹⁹ I wish [8] I had never existed but had been carried from the womb to the grave. ⓗ

²⁰ Are my days not few? Stop it! [9] Leave me alone, so that I can smile a little

²¹ before I go to a land of darkness and gloom, ⓘ never to return.

²² It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness, gloomy and chaotic, where even the light is like [10] the darkness.”

#	CSB
1	I am disgusted with my life. ⓗ I will give vent to my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2	I will say to God, “Do not declare me guilty! Let me know why you prosecute me.
3	Is it good for you to oppress, to reject the work of your hands, ⓘ and favor [1] the plans of the wicked? ⓙ
4	Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as a human sees?
5	Are your days like those of a human, or your years like those of a man, ⓚ
6	that you look for my iniquity ⓛ and search for my sin,
7	even though you know that I am not wicked and that there is no one who can rescue from your power? ⓜ
8	“Your hands shaped me and formed me. ⓝ Will you now turn and destroy me?
9	Please remember that you formed me like clay. Will you now return me to dust? ⓐ
10	Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?
11	You clothed me with skin and flesh, and wove me together with bones and tendons. ⓑ
12	You gave me life and faithful love, and your care has guarded my life.
13	“Yet you concealed these thoughts in your heart; I know that this was your hidden plan: [2]
14	if I sin, you would notice, [3] and would not acquit me of my iniquity. ⓒ
15	If I am wicked, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head. I am filled with shame ⓓ and have drunk deeply of [4] my affliction. ⓔ
16	If I am proud, [5] you hunt me like a lion and again display your miraculous power against me. ⓕ
17	You produce new witnesses [6] against me and multiply your anger toward me. Hardships assault me, wave after wave. [7]
18	“Why did you bring me out of the womb? ⓖ I should have died and never been seen.
19	I wish [8] I had never existed but had been carried from the womb to the grave. ⓗ
20	Are my days not few? Stop it! [9] Leave me alone, so that I can smile a little
21	before I go to a land of darkness and gloom, ⓘ never to return.
22	It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness, gloomy and chaotic, where even the light is like [10] the darkness.”

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