Job 10:8-22

New International Version

⁸ “Your hands shaped^(A) me and made me.
    Will you now turn and destroy me?^(B)
9 Remember that you molded me like clay.^(C)
    Will you now turn me to dust again?^(D)
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^(E) with bones and sinews?
¹² You gave me life^(F) and showed me kindness,^(G)
    and in your providence^(H) watched over^(I) my spirit.

¹³ “But this is what you concealed in your heart,
    and I know that this was in your mind:^(J)
14 If I sinned, you would be watching me^(K)
    and would not let my offense go unpunished.^(L)
15 If I am guilty^(M)—woe to me!^(N)
    Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head,^(O)
for I am full of shame
    and drowned in^[a] my affliction.^(P)
16 If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lion^(Q)
    and again display your awesome power against me.^(R)
17 You bring new witnesses against me^(S)
    and increase your anger toward me;^(T)
    your forces come against me wave upon wave.^(U)

¹⁸ “Why then did you bring me out of the womb?^(V)
    I wish I had died before any eye saw me.^(W)
19 If only I had never come into being,
    or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!^(X)
20 Are not my few days^(Y) almost over?^(Z)
    Turn away from me^(AA) so I can have a moment’s joy^(AB)
21 before I go to the place of no return,^(AC)
    to the land of gloom and utter darkness,^(AD)
22 to the land of deepest night,
    of utter darkness^(AE) and disorder,
    where even the light is like darkness.”^(AF)