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UST JOB Chapter 10

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10 I am tired of living,

so I will freely express everything I want to complain about without worrying about what God will do to me.

Yes, I will say exactly how unhappy I am.

2 I will say to God, ‘If you are going to punish me,

you should tell me what I have done wrong!’

3 You seem to think that it is all right to harm me

and to abandon me, whom you created.

But at the same time, you seem pleased to allow

wicked people to do the things that they plan to do!

4 Certainly you know and understand more than what people can see with their eyes! So you should understand my true motives and know that I am innocent.

5 You do not live for only a short time as people do!

6 So you do not need to act as if you would run out of time

if you did not discover all of my sins right away!

7 You do not need to work hard to discover any sins that I may have committed,

because you know that I am not guilty.

And there is no one who could help me get away from you if you decided you should punish me.

8 You personally created every single part of me.

So it is not right for you to destroy someone whom you created yourself.

9 Please recall how you made me! You molded me the way people mold objects out of clay.

If you destroy me, I will crumble into dust and you will lose your marvelous creative work.

10 You made me through a careful process,

the way people carefully make cheese out of milk.

11 You attached my bones together with tendons,

and then you covered them with flesh inside my skin.

12 You are the one who made me alive.

It seemed that you were faithfully taking care of me.

It seemed that you were protecting me.

13 But you kept secret what you were planning to do to me.

I am certain that you were planning to do these things to me!

14 You were watching me to see if I would sin

so that you could punish me for sinning.

15 If I am a wicked man,

then I hope that terrible things will happen to me.

But even if I am a good man,

I must still act ashamed

because you are punishing me as if I had sinned.

16 If I did act like the good man that I am,

you would conclude that you should punish me further

and you would hunt for me the way a lion hunts for some animal to kill.

When you caught me, you would do even more things to harm me greatly.

17 You would claim that I had committed even more sins.

You would become even more angry with me.

You would keep punishing me in new ways.

18 God, you should not have allowed my mother to give birth to me!

I wish that I had died at birth!

Yes, I wish that my parents had never shown me to anyone.

19 I wish that I had never even existed!

I wish that I had died at birth so that people had buried me right away.

20 I am not going to live very much longer!

So please leave me alone and let me have a little peace.

21 Let me have some peace now because

soon I will go to the place from which I will never return.

In that place where dead people go it is always gloomy.

Yes, it is very dark.

22 Yes, in that place it is very dark, the way it is in deep shadow.

Things are very chaotic there.

Even the small light that is there

is like darkness.’ ”

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