{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/erv/job/10","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-26T14:50:49.128Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ERV","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":10,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":9,"nextChapter":11,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":22},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Hast thou eyes of flesh, or seest thou as man seeth?"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Are thy days as the days of man, or thy years as man's days,"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin,"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Although thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Thine hands have framed me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Yet these things thou didst hide in thine heart; I know that this is with thee:"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head; being filled with ignominy and looking upon mine affliction."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And if my head exalt itself, thou huntest me as a lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvelous upon me."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and warfare are with me."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"A land of thick darkness, as darkness itself; a land of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 10 (ERV)","markdown":"[Job 10](https://primebible.com/erv/job/10)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ERV. https://primebible.com/erv/job/10 (accessed 2026-05-26)."}}