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Job 10:1
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"My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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Job 10:2
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I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me, Show me why you contend with me.
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Job 10:3
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Is it good to you that you should oppress, That you should despise the work of your hands, And smile on the counsel of the wicked?
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Job 10:4
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Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?
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Job 10:5
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Are your days as the days of mortals, Or your years as man's years,
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Job 10:6
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That you inquire after my iniquity, And search after my sin?
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Job 10:7
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Although you know that I am not wicked, There is no one who can deliver out of your hand.
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Job 10:8
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'Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether; Yet you destroy me.
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Job 10:9
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Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
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Job 10:10
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Haven't you poured me out like milk, And curdled me like cheese?
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Job 10:11
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You have clothed me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews.
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Job 10:12
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You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.
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Job 10:13
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Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:
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Job 10:14
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If I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.
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Job 10:15
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If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, Being filled with disgrace, And conscious of my affliction.
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Job 10:16
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If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.
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Job 10:17
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You renew your witnesses against me, And increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.
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Job 10:18
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"'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
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Job 10:19
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I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
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Job 10:20
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Aren't my days few? Cease then, Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
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Job 10:21
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Before I go where I shall not return from, To the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
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Job 10:22
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The land dark as midnight, Of the shadow of death, without any order, Where the light is as midnight.'"
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