Job 10:10-22
English Standard Version
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 (A)this was your purpose.
14 If I sin, you (B)watch me
and do not (C)acquit me of my iniquity.
15 (D)If I am guilty, woe to me!
If I am (E)in the right, I cannot lift up my head,
for I am filled with disgrace
and (F)look on my affliction.
16 And were my head lifted up,[a] you would hunt me like (G)a lion
and again work (H)wonders against me.
17 You renew your (I)witnesses against me
and increase your vexation toward me;
you (J)bring fresh troops against me.
18 (K)“Why did you bring me out from the womb?
Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
19 (L)and were as though I had not been,
carried from the womb to the grave.
20 (M)Are not my days few?
(N)Then cease, and leave me alone, (O)that I may find a little cheer
21 before I go—and (P)I shall not return—
to the land of (Q)darkness and (R)deep shadow,
22 the land of gloom like thick darkness,
like deep shadow without any order,
where light is as thick darkness.”
Footnotes
- Job 10:16 Hebrew lacks my head
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.