Job 10 Berean Standard Bible
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1 “I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
1 “My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2 I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
2 I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
3 Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?
3 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?
4 Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?
4 Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?
5 Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man,
5 Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man’s years,
6 that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin—
6 that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?
7 though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
7 Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.
8 Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
8 “‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.
9 Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
9 Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
10 Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?
10 Haven’t you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?
11 You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
11 You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
12 You have granted me life and loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit.
12 You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.
13 Yet You concealed these things in Your heart, and I know that this was in Your mind:
13 Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:
14 If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.
14 if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.
15 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.
15 If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.
16 Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.
16 If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.
17 You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.
17 You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.
18 Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
18 “‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
19 If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
19 I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
20 Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,
20 Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
21 before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom,
21 before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
22 to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
22 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’”
Cross references (22)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 7:11; 1 Kings 19:4; Numbers 11:15; Jonah 4:8; Job 9:21
- 2 Psalm 139:23–24; Job 9:29; Psalm 143:2; Psalm 25:7; Psalm 6:1–4
- 3 Isaiah 64:8; Job 14:15; Psalm 138:8; Jeremiah 12:1–3; Job 8:20
- 4 1 Samuel 16:7; Job 9:32; Luke 16:15; Revelation 1:14
- 5 2 Peter 3:8; Psalm 90:2–4; Psalm 102:24–27; Hebrews 1:12; Job 36:26
- 6 Job 14:16; Psalm 10:15; Psalm 44:21; Zephaniah 1:12; Jeremiah 2:34
- 7 Deuteronomy 32:39; Psalm 139:1–2; John 10:28–30; Daniel 3:15; Job 42:7
- 8 Psalm 119:73; Job 10:3; Isaiah 43:7; Jeremiah 18:3–10; Genesis 6:6–7
- 9 Genesis 2:7; Isaiah 64:8; Genesis 3:19; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Isaiah 45:9
- 10 Psalm 139:14–16
- 11 Ezekiel 37:4–8; Ephesians 4:16; Job 40:17–18; 2 Corinthians 5:2–3
- 12 Acts 17:28; Job 33:4; Acts 17:25; Matthew 6:25; Genesis 19:19
- 13 Job 23:13; Deuteronomy 32:39; Isaiah 45:7; Isaiah 46:9–11; Ecclesiastes 8:6–7
- 14 Job 7:21; Psalm 130:3; Exodus 34:7; Job 13:26–27; Numbers 14:18
- 15 Isaiah 3:11; Job 9:15; Job 9:20–21; Job 10:7; Malachi 3:18
- 16 Isaiah 38:13; Lamentations 3:10; Job 5:9; Hosea 13:7–8; Amos 3:8
- 17 Job 16:8; Ruth 1:21; Job 16:11–16; Job 19:6–11; Jeremiah 48:11
- 18 Jeremiah 20:14–18; Job 14:10; Job 11:20; Job 3:10–11; Jeremiah 15:10
- 19 Psalm 58:8
- 20 Job 14:1; Psalm 39:13; Psalm 39:5; Job 9:25–26; Job 7:6–7
- 21 Job 3:5; Job 16:22; 2 Samuel 12:23; Job 7:8–10; 2 Samuel 14:14
- 22 Psalm 88:12; Jeremiah 13:16; Job 3:5; Psalm 44:19; Job 38:17
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Who knitted us with sinews and bones, and clothed us with skin and flesh, and, as soon as the child was born, brought streams of milk out of the breasts?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)