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Job Continues: A Plea to God
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# Chapter 10
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1. "I loathe my life;
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I will give free utterance to my complaint;
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I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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2. I will say to God, Do not condemn me;
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let me know why you contend against me.
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3. Does it seem good to you to oppress,
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to despise the work of your hands
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and favor the designs of the wicked?
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4. Have you eyes of flesh?
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Do you see as man sees?
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5. Are your days as the days of man,
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or your years as a man's years,
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6. that you seek out my iniquity
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and search for my sin,
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7. although you know that I am not guilty,
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and there is none to deliver out of your hand?
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8. Your hands fashioned and made me,
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and now you have destroyed me altogether.
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9. Remember that you have made me like clay;
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and will you return me to the dust?
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10. Did you not pour me out like milk
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and curdle me like cheese?
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11. You clothed me with skin and flesh,
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and knit me together with bones and sinews.
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12. You have granted me life and steadfast love,
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and your care has preserved my spirit.
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13. Yet these things you hid in your heart;
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I know that this was your purpose.
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14. If I sin, you watch me
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and do not acquit me of my iniquity.
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15. If I am guilty, woe to me!
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If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head,
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for I am filled with disgrace
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and look on my affliction.
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16. And were my head lifted up, you would hunt me like a lion
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and again work wonders against me.
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17. You renew your witnesses against me
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and increase your vexation toward me;
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you bring fresh troops against me.
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18. "Why did you bring me out from the womb?
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Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
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19. and were as though I had not been,
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carried from the womb to the grave.
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20. Are not my days few?
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Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer
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21. before I go--and I shall not return--
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to the land of darkness and deep shadow,
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22. the land of gloom like thick darkness,
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like deep shadow without any order,
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where light is as thick darkness."
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