Job 10:10-22

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¹⁰Did you not pour me out like milk
    and curdle me like cheese?
¹¹You clothed me with skin and flesh,
    and knit me together with bones and sinews.
¹²You have granted me life and steadfast love,
    and your care has preserved my spirit.
¹³Yet these things you hid in your heart;
    I know that ^(A)this was your purpose.
¹⁴If 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.
¹⁶And were my head lifted up,^[a] you would hunt me like ^(G)a lion
    and again work ^(H)wonders against me.
¹⁷You 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
²¹before I go—and ^(P)I shall not return—
    to the land of ^(Q)darkness and ^(R)deep shadow,
²²the land of gloom like thick darkness,
    like deep shadow without any order,
    where light is as thick darkness.”