Job 10:1-22
Job continues to speak
I must continue to complain.
I am very
“Do not say that I am
Tell me what bad things you think I have done.
So you should not be cruel to me. It is not right.
Instead, you are kind to
You help them to do the bad things that they want to do.
Are your eyes only like human eyes?
It is surely not as short as that!
Why do you hurry to do that?
But you also know that no one can save me from your power.
But now you are completely destroying me.
like someone who uses
Will you now make me become
There you put my body together,
like milk that becomes cheese.
and you covered them with skin.
You took care of me and you kept me safe.
I have discovered your secret.
Then you would refuse to
that brings
But if I am
I still feel ashamed.
Whatever I do, I have nothing but
and my life is full of trouble.
you chase me like a hungry
You show your power to hurt me.
You become more and more angry with me.
You attack me with even greater power.
I should have died before anyone saw me.
Or they should have put me in my
immediately after my birth.
So leave me alone! Then I may be happy for a moment.
I will never come back from that place.
In that place, it is still dark when the light shines. ” ’