Job 9:1

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Job Replies: There Is No Arbiter

9 Then Job answered and said:

Job 10:1-9

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Job Continues: A Plea to God

10 “I ^(A)loathe my life;
I will give free utterance to my ^(B)complaint;
    I will speak in ^(C)the bitterness of my soul.
²I will say to God, Do not ^(D)condemn me;
    let me know why you ^(E)contend against me.
³^(F)Does it seem good to you to oppress,
    to despise ^(G)the work of your hands
    ^(H)and favor the designs of the wicked?
⁴Have you ^(I)eyes of flesh?
    ^(J)Do you see as man sees?
⁵Are your days as the days of man,
    or your ^(K)years as a man's years,
⁶that you ^(L)seek out my iniquity
    and search for my sin,
⁷although you ^(M)know that I am not guilty,
    and there is ^(N)none to deliver out of your hand?
⁸^(O)Your hands fashioned and made me,
    and now you have destroyed me altogether.
⁹Remember that you have made me like ^(P)clay;
    and will you return me to the ^(Q)dust?

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Job 10:16-22

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¹⁶And were my head lifted up,^[a] you would hunt me like ^(A)a lion
    and again work ^(B)wonders against me.
¹⁷You renew your ^(C)witnesses against me
    and increase your vexation toward me;
    you ^(D)bring fresh troops against me.

¹⁸^(E)“Why did you bring me out from the womb?
    Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
¹⁹^(F)and were as though I had not been,
    carried from the womb to the grave.
²⁰^(G)Are not my days few?
    ^(H)Then cease, and leave me alone, ^(I)that I may find a little cheer
²¹before I go—and ^(J)I shall not return—
    to the land of ^(K)darkness and ^(L)deep shadow,
²²the land of gloom like thick darkness,
    like deep shadow without any order,
    where light is as thick darkness.”