{"book":"Job","slug":"job","ch":10,"genre":"poetry","sub":"Job","prev":"job/9","next":"job/11","verses":[{"v":1,"t":"[“] I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"[“] I loathe my own life;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"I will express my complaint"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and speak in the bitterness of my soul."}],"h":"Job’s Plea to God","style":"indent1stline"},{"v":2,"t":"I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"I will say to God:"},{"style":"indent2","t":"Do not condemn me!"},{"style":"indent2","t":"Let me know why You prosecute me."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":3,"t":"Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Does it please You to oppress me,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"to reject the work of Your hands"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and favor the schemes of the wicked?"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":4,"t":"Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Do You have eyes of flesh?"},{"style":"indent2","t":"Do You see as man sees?"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":5,"t":"Are Your days like those of a [mortal], or Your years like those of a man,","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Are Your days like those of a [mortal],"},{"style":"indent2","t":"or Your years like those of a man,"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":6,"t":"that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin —","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"that You should seek my iniquity"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and search out my sin —"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":7,"t":"though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"though You know that I am not guilty,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and there is no deliverance from Your hand?"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":8,"t":"Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me."},{"style":"indent2","t":"Would You now turn and destroy me?"}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":9,"t":"Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Please remember that You molded me like clay."},{"style":"indent2","t":"Would You now return me to dust?"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":10,"t":"Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Did You not pour me out like milk,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and curdle me like cheese?"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":11,"t":"You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"You clothed me with skin and flesh,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and knit me together with bones and sinews."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":12,"t":"You have granted me life and loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit.","f":["Forms of the Hebrew chesed are translated here and in most cases throughout the Scriptures as loving devotion; the range of meaning includes love, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, and mercy, as well as loyalty to a covenant."],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"You have granted me life and loving devotion,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and Your care has preserved my spirit."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":13,"t":"Yet You concealed these [things] in Your heart, and I know that this [was] in Your [mind]:","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"Yet You concealed these [things] in Your heart,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and I know that this [was] in Your [mind]:"}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":14,"t":"If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"If I sinned, You would take note,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and would not acquit me of my iniquity."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":15,"t":"If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. [I am] full of shame and aware of my affliction.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"If I am guilty, woe to me!"},{"style":"indent2","t":"And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head."},{"style":"indent1","t":"[I am] full of shame"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and aware of my affliction."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":16,"t":"Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Should I hold my head high,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"You would hunt me like a lion,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and again display Your power against me."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":17,"t":"You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"You produce new witnesses against me"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and multiply Your anger toward me."},{"style":"indent1","t":"Hardships assault me"},{"style":"indent2","t":"in wave after wave."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":18,"t":"Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"Why then did You bring me from the womb?"},{"style":"indent2","t":"Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!"}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":19,"t":"If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"If only I had never come to be,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"but had been carried from the womb to the grave."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":20,"t":"Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Are my days not few?"},{"style":"indent2","t":"Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":21,"t":"before I go — never to return — to a land of darkness and gloom,","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"before I go — never to return —"},{"style":"indent2","t":"to a land of darkness and gloom,"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":22,"t":"to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"to a land of utter darkness,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"of deep shadow and disorder,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"where even the light is like darkness.”"}],"style":"indent1"}]}