Job 10  New American Standard Bible 1995

⁸ ‘^(L)Your hands fashioned and made me ^[d]altogether,
^(M)And would You destroy me?
⁹ ‘Remember now, that You have made me as ^(N)clay;
And would You ^(O)turn me into dust again?
¹⁰ ‘Did You not pour me out like milk
And curdle me like cheese;
¹¹ Clothe me with skin and flesh,
And knit me together with bones and sinews?
¹² ‘You have ^(P)granted me life and lovingkindness;
And Your care has preserved my spirit.
¹³ ‘Yet ^(Q)these things You have concealed in Your heart;
I know that this is within You:
¹⁴ If I sin, then You would ^(R)take note of me,
And ^(S)would not acquit me of my guilt.
¹⁵ ‘If ^(T)I am wicked, woe to me!
And ^(U)if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head.
I am sated with disgrace and ^[e]conscious of my misery.
¹⁶ ‘Should my head be lifted up, ^(V)You would hunt me like a lion;
And again You would show Your ^(W)power against me.
¹⁷ ‘You renew ^(X)Your witnesses against me
And increase Your anger toward me;
^[f](Y)Hardship after hardship is with me.

¹⁸ ‘^(Z)Why then have You brought me out of the womb?
Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!
¹⁹ ‘I should have been as though I had not been,
Carried from womb to tomb.’
²⁰ “Would He not let ^(AA)my few days alone?
^[g](AB)Withdraw from me that I may have a little cheer
²¹ Before I go—^(AC)and I shall not return—
^(AD)To the land of darkness and ^(AE)deep shadow,
²² The land of utter gloom as darkness itself,
Of deep shadow without order,
And which shines as the darkness.”