Job 10:9-19 (New International Version)
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Remember that you molded me like clay.1 Will you now turn me to dust again?2
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Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese,
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clothe me with skin and flesh and knit me together3 with bones and sinews?
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You gave me life4 and showed me kindness,5 and in your providence6 watched over7 my spirit.
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"But this is what you concealed in your heart, and I know that this was in your mind:8
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If I sinned, you would be watching me9 and would not let my offense go unpunished.10
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If I am guilty11--woe to me!12 Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head,13 for I am full of shame and drowned ina my affliction.14
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If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lion15 and again display your awesome power against me.16
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You bring new witnesses against me17 and increase your anger toward me;18 your forces come against me wave upon wave.19
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"Why then did you bring me out of the womb?20 I wish I had died before any eye saw me.21
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If only I had never come into being, or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!22
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