Job 10:3-11:12
English Standard Version
3 (A)Does it seem good to you to oppress,
to despise (B)the work of your hands
(C)and favor the designs of the wicked?
4 Have you (D)eyes of flesh?
(E)Do you see as man sees?
5 Are your days as the days of man,
or your (F)years as a man's years,
6 that you (G)seek out my iniquity
and search for my sin,
7 although you (H)know that I am not guilty,
and there is (I)none to deliver out of your hand?
8 (J)Your hands fashioned and made me,
and now you have destroyed me altogether.
9 Remember that you have made me like (K)clay;
and will you return me to the (L)dust?
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 (M)this was your purpose.
14 If I sin, you (N)watch me
and do not (O)acquit me of my iniquity.
15 (P)If I am guilty, woe to me!
If I am (Q)in the right, I cannot lift up my head,
for I am filled with disgrace
and (R)look on my affliction.
16 And were my head lifted up,[a] you would hunt me like (S)a lion
and again work (T)wonders against me.
17 You renew your (U)witnesses against me
and increase your vexation toward me;
you (V)bring fresh troops against me.
18 (W)“Why did you bring me out from the womb?
Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
19 (X)and were as though I had not been,
carried from the womb to the grave.
20 (Y)Are not my days few?
(Z)Then cease, and leave me alone, (AA)that I may find a little cheer
21 before I go—and (AB)I shall not return—
to the land of (AC)darkness and (AD)deep shadow,
22 the land of gloom like thick darkness,
like deep shadow without any order,
where light is as thick darkness.”
Zophar Speaks: You Deserve Worse
11 Then (AE)Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:
2 “Should (AF)a multitude of words go unanswered,
and a man full of talk be judged right?
3 Should your babble silence men,
and when you mock, shall no one shame you?
4 For (AG)you say, ‘My (AH)doctrine is pure,
and I am clean in God's[b] eyes.’
5 But oh, that God would speak
and open his lips to you,
6 and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom!
For he is manifold in (AI)understanding.[c]
Know then that God (AJ)exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.
7 (AK)“Can you find out the deep things of God?
Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?
8 It is (AL)higher than heaven[d]—what can you do?
Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
9 Its measure is longer than the earth
and broader than the sea.
10 If he (AM)passes through and (AN)imprisons
and summons the court, who can (AO)turn him back?
11 For he knows (AP)worthless men;
when he sees iniquity, will he not consider it?
12 But a stupid man will get understanding
when (AQ)a wild donkey's colt is (AR)born a man!
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