Job 10 - ESV Bible - "I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to...

1 "I ¹loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my ²complaint; I will speak in ³the bitterness of my soul.

2 I will say to God, Do not ⁴condemn me; let me know why you ⁵contend against me.

3 ⁶Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise ⁷the work of your hands ⁸and favor the designs of the wicked?

4 Have you ⁹eyes of flesh? ¹⁰Do you see as man sees?

5 Are your days as the days of man, or your ¹¹years as a man's years,

6 that you ¹²seek out my iniquity and search for my sin,

7 although you ¹³know that I am not guilty, and there is ¹⁴none to deliver out of your hand?

8 ¹⁵Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether.

9 Remember that you have made me like ¹⁶clay; and will you return me to the ¹⁷dust?

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

11 You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

12 You have granted me life and steadfast love, and your care has preserved my spirit.

13 Yet these things you hid in your heart; I know that ¹⁸this was your purpose.

14 If I sin, you ¹⁹watch me and do not ²⁰acquit me of my iniquity.

15 ²¹If I am guilty, woe to me! If I am ²²in the right, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and ²³look on my affliction.

16 And were my head lifted up,^a you would hunt me like ²⁴a lion and again work ²⁵wonders against me.

17 You renew your ²⁶witnesses against me and increase your vexation toward me; you ²⁷bring fresh troops against me.

18 ²⁸"Why did you bring me out from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me

19 ²⁹and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.

20 ³⁰Are not my days few? ³¹Then cease, and leave me alone, ³²that I may find a little cheer

21 before I go--and ³³I shall not return-- to the land of ³⁴darkness and ³⁵deep shadow,

22 the land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is as thick darkness."

Job 10 ESV