Job Despairs of God’s Dealings
“1aI am disgusted with my own life;I will express bmy complaint freely;I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.Lit My soul loathesJob 7:16Job 7:112 “I will say to God, ‘aDo not condemn me;Let me know why You contend with me.Job 9:293 ‘Is it 1right for You indeed to aoppress,To reject bthe work of Your hands,And 2to look favorably on cthe plan of the wicked?Lit goodLit You shine forthJob 9:22-24; 16:11; 19:6; 27:2Job 10:8; 14:15; Ps 138:8; Is 64:8Job 21:16; 22:184 ‘Do You have eyes of flesh?Or do You asee as mankind sees?1 Sam 16:7; Job 28:24; 34:215 ‘Are Your days like the days of a mortal,Or aYour years like a man’s year,Job 36:266 That aYou should search for my guiltAnd carefully seek my sin?Job 14:167 ‘According to Your knowledge aI am indeed not guilty,Yet there is bno one to save me from Your hand.Job 9:21; 13:18Job 9:12; 23:13; 27:22
8 ‘aYour hands fashioned and made me 1altogether,bYet would You destroy me?Lit together round aboutJob 10:3; Ps 119:73Job 9:229 ‘Remember that You have made me as aclay;Yet would You bturn me into dust again?Job 4:19; 33:6Job 7:2110 ‘Did You not pour me out like milk,And curdle me like cheese,11 Clothe me with skin and flesh,And intertwine me with bones and tendons?12 ‘You have agranted me life and 1goodness;And Your care has guarded my spirit.See Job 1:1-2Job 33:413 ‘Yet You have concealed athese things in Your heart;I know that this is within You:Job 23:1314 If I have sinned, You will atake note of me,And bwill not acquit me of my guilt.Job 7:20Job 7:21; 9:2815 ‘If aI am wicked, woe to me!But if bI am righteous, I dare not lift up my head.I am full of shame, and 1conscious of my misery.Lit seeJob 10:7; Is 3:11Job 6:2916 ‘And should my head be high, aYou would hunt me like a lion;And You would show Your bpower against me again.Is 38:13; Lam 3:10; Hos 13:7Job 5:917 ‘You renew aYour witnesses against meAnd increase Your anger toward me;1bHardship after hardship is with me.Lit Changes and warfare are with meRuth 1:21; Job 16:8Job 7:1
18 ‘aWhy then did You bring me out of the womb?If only I had died and no eye had seen me!Job 3:11-1319 ‘I should have been as though I had not been,Brought from womb to tomb.’20 “Would He not leave amy few days alone?1bWithdraw from me so that I may have a little cheerfulnessLit PutJob 14:1Job 7:16, 1921 Before I go—aand I shall not return—bTo the land of darkness and cdeep shadow,2 Sam 12:23; Job 3:13-19; 16:22Ps 88:12Job 10:22; 34:22; 38:17; Ps 23:422 The land of utter gloom like darkness itself,Of deep shadow without order,And it shines like darkness.”