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Job 10 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Job: I Would Plead with God
Job Pleads Further with God

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:1 - “My soul loathes my life;
I will give free course to my complaint,
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:2 - I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me;
Show me why You contend with me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:3 - Does it seem 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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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:4 - Do You have eyes of flesh?
Or do You see as man sees?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:5 - Are Your days like the days of a mortal man?
Are Your years like the days of a mighty man,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:6 - That You should seek for my iniquity
And search out my sin,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:7 - Although You know that I am not wicked,
And there is no one who can deliver from Your hand?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:8 - ‘Your hands have made me and fashioned me,
An intricate unity;
Yet You would destroy me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:9 - Remember, I pray, that You have made me like clay.
And will You turn me into dust again?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:10 - Did You not pour me out like milk,
And curdle me like cheese,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:11 - Clothe me with skin and flesh,
And knit me together with bones and sinews?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:12 - You have granted me life and favor,
And Your care has preserved my spirit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:13 - ‘And these things You have hidden in Your heart;
I know that this was with You:

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:14 - If I sin, then You mark me,
And will not acquit me of my iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:15 - If I am wicked, woe to me;
Even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head.
I am full of disgrace;
See my misery!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:16 - If my head is exalted,
You hunt me like a fierce lion,
And again You show Yourself awesome against me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:17 - You renew Your witnesses against me,
And increase Your indignation toward me;
Changes and war are ever with me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:18 - ‘Why then have You brought me out of the womb?
Oh, that I had perished and no eye had seen me!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:19 - I would have been as though I had not been.
I would have been carried from the womb to the grave.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:20 - Are not my days few?
Cease! Leave me alone, that I may take a little comfort,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:21 - Before I go to the place from which I shall not return,
To the land of darkness and the shadow of death,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:22 - A land as dark as darkness itself,
As the shadow of death, without any order,
Where even the light is like darkness.’ ”
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New King James Version, © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

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