| 10:1 | My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry. |
| 10:2 | I will say to God, Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against me. |
| 10:3 | What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers? |
| 10:4 | Have you eyes of flesh, or do you see as man sees? |
| 10:5 | Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his, |
| 10:6 | That you take note of my sin, searching after my wrongdoing, |
| 10:7 | Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands? |
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| 10:8 | Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction. |
| 10:9 | O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust? |
| 10:10 | Was I not drained out like milk, becoming hard like cheese? |
| 10:11 | By you I was clothed with skin and flesh, and joined together with bones and muscles. |
| 10:12 | You have been kind to me, and your grace has been with me, and your care has kept my spirit safe. |
| 10:13 | But you kept these things in the secret of your heart; I am certain this was in your thoughts: |
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| 10:14 | That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin: |
| 10:15 | That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble. |
| 10:16 | And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me: |
| 10:17 | That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me. |
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| 10:20 | Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure, |
| 10:21 | Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black, |
| 10:22 | A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark. |
Ayub 10 - Bible in Basic English
