{"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/web/job/10","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T00:41:53.612Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","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 tell God, 'Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"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?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man's years,"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"|'Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Haven't you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"|'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, 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":"Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'|"}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 10 (WEB)","markdown":"[Job 10](https://primebible.com/web/job/10)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/job/10 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}