Job 10

New American Standard Bible

Job Despairs of God’s Dealings

10 “^[a]^(A)I am disgusted with my own life;
I will express ^(B)my complaint freely;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
²I will say to God, ‘^(C)Do not condemn me;
Let me know why You contend with me.
³Is it ^[b]right for You indeed to ^(D)oppress,
To reject ^(E)the work of Your hands,
And ^[c]to look favorably on ^(F)the plan of the wicked?
⁴Do You have eyes of flesh?
Or do You ^(G)see as mankind sees?
⁵Are Your days like the days of a mortal,
Or ^(H)Your years like a man’s year,
⁶That ^(I)You should search for my guilt
And carefully seek my sin?
⁷According to Your knowledge ^(J)I am indeed not guilty,
Yet there is ^(K)no one to save me from Your hand.

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

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

Footnotes

Job 10:1 Lit My soul loathes
Job 10:3 Lit good
Job 10:3 Lit You shine forth
Job 10:8 Lit together round about
Job 10:12 See Job 1:1-2
Job 10:15 Lit see
Job 10:17 Lit Changes and warfare are with me
Job 10:20 Lit Put

Romans 14

New American Standard Bible

Principles of Conscience

14 Now ^(A)accept the one who is ^(B)weak ^[a]in faith, but not ^[b]to have quarrels over opinions. ²^(C)One person has faith that he may eat all things, but the one who is ^(D)weak eats only vegetables. ³The one who eats is not to ^(E)regard with contempt the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat is not to ^(F)judge the one who eats, for God has ^(G)accepted him. ⁴^(H)Who are you to judge the ^[c]servant of another? To his own ^[d]master he stands or falls; and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

⁵^(I)One person ^[e]values one day over another, another ^[f]values every day the same. Each person must be ^(J)fully convinced in his own mind. ⁶The one who observes the day, observes it for the Lord, and the one who eats, ^[g]does so with regard to the Lord, for he ^(K)gives thanks to God; and the one who does not eat, it is for the Lord that he does not eat, and he gives thanks to God. ⁷For not one of us ^(L)lives for himself, and not one dies for himself; ⁸for if we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore ^(M)whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. ⁹For to this end ^(N)Christ died and lived again, that He might be ^(O)Lord both of the dead and of the living.

¹⁰But as for you, why do you judge your brother or sister? Or you as well, why do you ^(P)regard your brother or sister with contempt? For ^(Q)we will all appear before the judgment seat of God. ¹¹For it is written:

“^(R)As I live, says the Lord, ^(S)to Me every knee will bow,
And every tongue will ^[h]give praise to God.”

¹²So then ^(T)each one of us will give an account of himself to God.

¹³Therefore let’s not ^(U)judge one another anymore, but rather ^[i]determine this: ^(V)not to put an obstacle or a stumbling block in a brother’s or sister’s way. ¹⁴I know and am convinced ^[j]in the Lord Jesus that ^(W)nothing is ^[k]unclean in itself; but to the one who ^(X)thinks something is ^[l]unclean, to that person it is ^[m]unclean. ¹⁵For if because of food your brother or sister is hurt, you are no longer ^(Y)walking in accordance with love. ^(Z)Do not destroy with your choice of food that person for whom Christ died. ¹⁶Therefore ^(AA)do not let what is for you a good thing be ^[n]spoken of as evil; ¹⁷for the kingdom of God ^(AB)is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and ^(AC)peace and ^(AD)joy in the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸For the one who ^(AE)serves Christ in this way is ^(AF)acceptable to God and approved by other people. ¹⁹So then we ^(AG)pursue the things ^[o]which make for peace and the ^(AH)building up of one another. ²⁰^(AI)Do not tear down the work of God for the sake of food. ^(AJ)All things indeed are clean, but ^(AK)they are evil for the person who eats ^[p]and causes offense. ²¹^(AL)It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine, or to do anything by which your brother or sister stumbles. ²²The faith which you have, have ^[q]as your own conviction before God. Happy is the one who ^(AM)does not condemn himself in what he approves. ²³But ^(AN)the one who doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and whatever is not from faith is sin.