Job Cries Out to God
“aMy soul is loathed by my life;I will abandon all restraint in myself to bmy complaint;I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.Job 7:16Job 7:112 “I will say to God, ‘aDo not account me as wicked;Let me know why You contend with me.Job 9:293 ‘Is it good to You that You aoppress,That You reject bthe labor of Your hands,And 1cause cthe counsel of the wicked to shine forth?Lit 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 ‘Have You eyes of flesh?Or do You asee as a mortal man sees?1 Sam 16:7; Job 28:24; 34:215 ‘Are Your days as the days of a mortal man,Or aYour years as man’s years,Job 36:266 That aYou should seek for my guiltAnd search after my sin?Job 14:167 ‘According to Your knowledge aI am indeed not wicked,Yet there is bno 1deliverer from Your hand.Job 9:21; 13:18Job 9:12; 23:13; 27:22Or deliverance
8 ‘aYour hands fashioned and made me 1altogether,bAnd would You swallow me up?Lit together round aboutJob 10:3; Ps 119:73Job 9:229 ‘Remember now, that You have made me as aclay;And would You bturn me into dust again?Job 4:19; 33:6Job 7:2110 ‘Did You not pour me out like milkAnd curdle me like cheese,11 Clothe me with skin and flesh,And knit me together with bones and sinews?12 ‘You have amade alongside me life and lovingkindness;And Your care has kept my spirit.Job 33:413 ‘Yet athese things You have concealed in Your heart;I know that this is within You:Job 23:1314 If I sin, then You would atake note of meAnd bwould not acquit me of my guilt.Job 7:20Job 7:21; 9:2815 ‘If aI am wicked, woe to me!And bif I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head.I am sated with disgrace—so see my misery!Job 10:7; Is 3:11Job 6:2916 ‘Should my head be set on high, aYou would hunt me like a lion;And again You would show Your bwonders against me.Is 38:13; Lam 3:10; Hos 13:7Job 5:917 ‘You renew aYour witnesses against meAnd increase Your vexation 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 have You brought me out of the womb?Would that I had breathed my last and no eye had seen me!Job 3:11-1319 ‘I should have been as though I had not been,Carried from womb to tomb.’20 “Would He not cease afor a few of my days?1bWithdraw from me that I may have a little cheerLit PutJob 14:1Job 7:16, 1921 Before I go—aand I shall not return—bTo the land of darkness and cshadow of death,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 as the thick darkness itself,Of the shadow of death, without order,And which shines as the thick darkness.”