# Job 10 (New King James Version)
Job: I Would Plead with God

##### Chapter 10
###### 1 "My soul loathes my life;  
I will give free course to my complaint,  
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.  

###### 2 I will say to God, 'Do not condemn me;  
Show me why You contend with me.  

###### 3 _Does it_ seem good to You that You should oppress,  
That You should despise the work of Your hands,  
And smile on the counsel of the wicked?  

###### 4 Do You have eyes of flesh?  
Or do You see as man sees?  

###### 5 _Are_ Your days like the days of a mortal man?  
_Are_ Your years like the days of a mighty man,  

###### 6 That You should seek for my iniquity  
And search out my sin,  

###### 7 Although You know that I am not wicked,  
And _there is_ no one who can deliver from Your hand?

###### 8 'Your hands have made me and fashioned me,  
An intricate unity;  
Yet You would destroy me.  

###### 9 Remember, I pray, that You have made me like clay.  
And will You turn me into dust again?  

###### 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 with bones and sinews?  

###### 12 You have granted me life and favor,  
And Your care has preserved my spirit.

###### 13 'And these _things_ You have hidden in Your heart;  
I know that this _was_ with You:  

###### 14 If I sin, then You mark me,  
And will not acquit me of my iniquity.  

###### 15 If I am wicked, woe to me;  
Even _if_ I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head.  
_I am_ full of disgrace;  
See my misery!  

###### 16 If _my head_ is exalted,  
You hunt me like a fierce lion,  
And again You show Yourself awesome against me.  

###### 17 You renew Your witnesses against me,  
And increase Your indignation toward me;  
Changes and war are _ever_ with me.

###### 18 'Why then have You brought me out of the womb?  
Oh, that I had perished and no eye had seen me!  

###### 19 I would have been as though I had not been.  
I would have been carried from the womb to the grave.  

###### 20 Are not my days few?  
Cease! Leave me alone, that I may take a little comfort,  

###### 21 Before I go _to the place from which_ I shall not return,  
To the land of darkness and the shadow of death,  

###### 22 A land as dark as darkness _itself,_  
As the shadow of death, without any order,  
_Where_ even the light _is_ like darkness.' "