Job 10:9-19

9 Remember that you fashioned me like clay; and will you turn me to dust again?
10 Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?
11 You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
12 You have granted me life and steadfast love, and your care has preserved my spirit.
13 Yet these things you hid in your heart; I know that this was your purpose.
14 If I sin, you watch me, and do not acquit me of my iniquity.
15 If I am wicked, woe to me! If I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look upon my affliction.
16 Bold as a lion you hunt me; you repeat your exploits against me.
17 You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your vexation toward me; you bring fresh troops against me.
18 "Why did you bring me forth from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me,
19 and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Cn Compare Gk: Heb [toward me; changes and a troop are with me]
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