📖 Job 10
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An Appeal for Revelation“I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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I will say to God,‘Do not condemn me; tell me why you are contending with me.’
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Is it good for you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?
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Motivations of God“Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as a human being sees?
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Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal,
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that you must search out my iniquity, and inquire about my sin,
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although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?
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Contradictions in God’s Dealings“Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.
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Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?
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Did you not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?
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You clothed me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews.
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You gave me life and favor, and your intervention watched over my spirit.
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“But these things you have concealed in your heart; I know that this is with you:
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If I sinned, then you would watch me and you would not acquit me of my iniquity.
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If I am guilty, woe to me, and if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head; I am full of shame, and satiated with my affliction.
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If I lift myself up, you hunt me as a fierce lion, and again you display your power against me.
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You bring new witnesses against me, and increase your anger against me; relief troops come against me.
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An Appeal for Relief“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!
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I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!
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Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
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before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,
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to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”