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Job's Plea to God

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 Continues: A Plea to God

“I loathe my life;
I will give free utterance to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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I will say unto +God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou strivest with me.

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I will say to God, Do not condemn me;
let me know why you contend against me.

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Doth it please thee to oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

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Does it seem good to you to oppress,
to despise the work of your hands
and favor the designs of the wicked?

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Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?

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Have you eyes of flesh?
Do you see as man sees?

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Are thy days as the days of a mortal? are thy years as a man's days,

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Are your days as the days of man,
or your years as a man’s years,

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That thou searchest after mine iniquity, and inquirest into my sin;

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that you seek out my iniquity
and search for my sin,

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Since thou knowest that I am not wicked, and that there is none that delivereth out of thy hand?

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although you know that I am not guilty,
and there is none to deliver out of your hand?

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Thy hands have bound me together and made me as one, round about; yet dost thou swallow me up!

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Your hands fashioned and made me,
and now you have destroyed me altogether.

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Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as clay, and wilt bring me into dust again.

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Remember that you have made me like clay;
and will you return me to the dust?

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Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?

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Did you not pour me out like milk
and curdle me like cheese?

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Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews;

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You clothed me with skin and flesh,
and knit me together with bones and sinews.

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Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy care hath preserved my spirit;

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You have granted me life and steadfast love,
and your care has preserved my spirit.

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And these things didst thou hide in thy heart; I know that this was with thee.

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Yet these things you hid in your heart;
I know that this was your purpose.

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If I sinned, thou wouldest mark me, and thou wouldest not acquit me of mine iniquity.

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If I sin, you watch me
and do not acquit me of my iniquity.

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If I were wicked, woe unto me! and righteous, I will not lift up my head, being [so] full of shame, and beholding mine affliction; --

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If I am guilty, woe to me!
If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head,
for I am filled with disgrace
and look on my affliction.

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And it increaseth: thou huntest me as a fierce lion; and ever again thou shewest thy marvellous power upon me.

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And were my head lifted up,a you would hunt me like a lion
and again work wonders against me.

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Thou renewest thy witnesses before me and increasest thy displeasure against me; successions [of evil] and a time of toil are with me.

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You renew your witnesses against me
and increase your vexation toward me;
you bring fresh troops against me.

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And wherefore didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? I had expired, and no eye had seen me.

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“Why did you bring me out from the womb?
Would that I had died before any eye had seen me

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I should be as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

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and were as though I had not been,
carried from the womb to the grave.

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Are not my days few? cease then and let me alone, that I may revive a little,

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Are not my days few?
Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer

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Before I go, and never to return, -- to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

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before I go — and I shall not return —
to the land of darkness and deep shadow,

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A land of gloom, as darkness itself; of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as thick darkness.

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the land of gloom like thick darkness,
like deep shadow without any order,
where light is as thick darkness.”

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