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OET-RV JOB Chapter 10

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10 Inside, I loathe my life.

I’ll release my complaints.

I’ll express my inner bitterness.

2 I’ll tell God not to condemn me.

Help me to know why you’re against me.

3 Does it seem good to you to oppress me?

Have you rejected this creation of yours,

and delighted in wicked people’s plans instead?

4 Do you have actual eyes?

Do you see like people do?

5 Are your days like a person’s days

or your years like a person’s years

6 that you look for my guilt

and search for my sin.

7 Knowing that I’m not guilty,

won’t anyone save me from you?

8 Your hands shaped and moulded me.

Will the same hands now destroy me?

9 Please remember that you made me like the clay.

Will you now turn me to dust?

10 Haven’t you poured me out like milk

≈and curdled me like cheese?

11 You clothed me with flesh and skin,

≈and you knit me together with bones and tendons inside.

12 You have made life and genuine love for me,

and your care has kept my spirit alive.

13 But you hid these things in your heart,

and I know that this is with you.

14 If I sin you’ll be watching me,

and you wouldn’t acquit me of my crime.

15 If I’m guilty, may my end be bad.

If I’m innocent, I won’t raise my head.

I’m full of shame and you’ve seen my suffering.

16 If I get up, the lion will hunt me.

Again, you show me how wonderful you are.

17 You find new witnesses against me.

And you get more angry with me and send changed forces against me.

18 So why did you allow me to come out from the womb?

Better if I’d expired and no one had seen me.

19 If only I’d never existed—

just went straight from the womb to the grave.

20 Aren’t my days few?

So leave me and let me enjoy a little comfort

21 before I go and don’t return to the land of darkness and deep shadow—

22 the land of gloom and deep darkness,

disorderly and with gloomy light.

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