Job 10
Job Continues: Why Have You Made Me Your Target?
1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. Parallel theme: Job 5:20, 7:11, 9:21, Numbers 11:15, 1 Kings 19:4, Jonah 4:8
2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
3 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked? Parallel theme: Job 14:15, Psalms 138:8, Isaiah 64:8
4 Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth? Parallel theme: 1 Samuel 16:7, Luke 16:15
5 Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days, Parallel theme: 2 Peter 3:8
6 That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin? Sin: Job 14:16. Parallel theme: Psalms 10:15, 44:21, Jeremiah 2:34, Zephaniah 1:12
7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand. Parallel theme: Deuteronomy 32:39
8 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. Creation: Psalms 119:73, Isaiah 43:7. Parallel theme: Job 10:3
9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again? Parallel theme: Genesis 2:7, 3:19, Ecclesiastes 12:7, Isaiah 64:8, Jeremiah 18:6
10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
12 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. Spirit: Job 33:4. Parallel theme: Genesis 19:19, Matthew 6:25, Acts 17:25, 17:28
13 And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee. Parallel theme: Job 23:13, Deuteronomy 32:39
14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction; Evil: Job 10:7, Isaiah 3:11. Righteousness: Job 9:15, Malachi 3:18. Parallel theme: Psalms 25:18
16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me. Parallel theme: Job 5:9, Isaiah 38:13, Lamentations 3:10
17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me. Witness: Job 16:8. Parallel theme: Ruth 1:21
18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
20 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Parallel theme: Job 14:1, Psalms 39:13
21 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.