Job 10
1 "I loathe my very life;S Nu 11:15; S 1Ki 19:4 1 1Ki 19:4 1 therefore I will give free rein to my complaint 1 and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.S 1Sa 1:10; S Job 7:119:18,21 1 Job 7:11
2 I will say to God:Job 13:3; 40:1 Do not condemn me, 2 but tell me what chargesJob 9:29Isa 3:13; Hos 4:1; 5:1; 12:2; Mic 6:2; Ro 8:33 you have against me.S Job 9:3 2 Job 9:29
3 Does it please you to oppress me,S Job 9:2216:9,14; 19:6,21; 22:10; 30:13,21; 31:23; 34:6 3 Job 9:22 3 to spurn the work of your hands,ver 8; Ge 1:26; S Job 4:1714:1534:19Ps 8:6; 95:6; 100:3138:8149:2Isa 60:2164:8 3 Job 14:15; Ps 138:8 3 while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?S Job 9:24Job 21:16; 22:18 3 Job 21:16; 22:18
4 Do you have eyes of flesh? 4 Do you see as a mortal sees?1Sa 16:7Job 11:11; 14:16; 24:23; 28:24; 31:4; 34:21; 41:11; Ps 11:4; 33:15; 119:168; 139:12; Pr 5:21; 15:3; Jer 11:20-23; 16:17 4 1Sa 16:7
5 Are your days like those of a mortal 5 or your years like those of a man,Job 36:26Ps 39:590:2,4102:242Pe 3:8 5 Ps 90:2,4; 2Pe 3:8
6 that you must search out my faults 6 and probe after my sinJob 14:16— 6 Job 14:16
7 though you know that I am not guiltyver 15; S Job 6:29; 11:4; 16:17; 27:5,6; 31:6; 32:1 7 and that no one can rescue me from your hand?S Dt 32:39
8 "Your hands shapedGe 2:7Ps 119:73 me and made me. 8 Ps 119:73 8 Will you now turn and destroy me?S ver 3; S 2Sa 14:14; S Job 30:15
9 Remember that you molded me like clay.S Job 4:19; Isa 29:16Isa 64:8 9 Isa 64:8 9 Will you now turn me to dust again?S Ge 2:7S Job 7:21 9 Ge 2:7
10 Did you not pour me out like milk 10 and curdle me like cheese,
11 clothe me with skin and flesh 11 and knit me togetherPs 139:13,15 with bones and sinews? 11 Ps 139:13,15
12 You gave me lifeS Ge 2:7Job 33:4 and showed me kindness,S Ge 24:12 12 Job 33:4 12 and in your providenceS Ge 45:5 watched over1Pe 2:25 my spirit.
13 "But this is what you concealed in your heart, 13 and I know that this was in your mind:Job 23:13Ps 115:3 13 Job 23:13
14 If I sinned, you would be watching meJob 13:27 14 and would not let my offense go unpunished.S Ex 34:7; S Job 7:21 14 Job 7:21
15 If I am guiltyS ver 7—woe to me!S Job 9:13Isa 3:11 15 Job 9:13 15 Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head,S Job 9:15 15 Job 9:15 15 for I am full of shame 15 and drowned in[a] Or and aware of my affliction.Ps 25:16
16 If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lionS 1Sa 17:34; Ps 7:2Isa 38:13Jer 5:6; 25:38La 3:10Hos 5:14; 13:7 16 Isa 38:13; La 3:10 16 and again display your awesome power against me.Job 5:9Isa 28:21; 29:14; 65:7
17 You bring new witnesses against me1Ki 21:10Job 16:8 17 Job 16:8 17 and increase your anger toward me;Ru 1:21 17 Ru 1:21 17 your forces come against me wave upon wave.S Job 5:7
18 "Why then did you bring me out of the womb?S Job 3:8; S Ps 22:9Job 3:11 18 Job 3:11 18 I wish I had died before any eye saw me.Job 3:26; Ecc 4:2; 7:1
19 If only I had never come into being, 19 or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!S Job 3:3; Jer 15:10
20 Are not my few daysJob 14:1Ecc 6:12 almost over?S Job 7:7Job 7:19 20 Job 7:19; 14:1 20 Turn away from meS Job 7:16 so I can have a moment's joyS Job 9:25 20 Job 7:16
21 before I go to the place of no return,S 2Sa 12:23S Job 3:13; 16:22Ps 39:13; Ecc 12:5 21 Job 3:13; 16:22 21 to the land of gloom and deep shadow,[b] Or and the shadow of death; also in verse 22S Job 3:5Ps 23:4; 88:12 21 Ps 23:4; 88:12
22 to the land of deepest night, 22 of deep shadowS Job 3:5 and disorder, 22 where even the light is like darkness."S 1Sa 2:9; S Job 3:13 Job 11
1 Zophar
1 Then Zophar the NaamathiteS Job 2:11 replied:
2 "Are all these words to go unanswered?S Job 8:2S 16:3 2 Job 8:2 2 Is this talker to be vindicated?S Ge 41:6; S Job 6:29
3 Will your idle talkEph 4:29; 5:4 reduce men to silence? 3 Will no one rebuke you when you mock?Job 12:4; 16:1017:2; 21:330:1; Ps 1:1 3 Job 17:2; 21:3
4 You say to God, 'My beliefs are flawlessJob 9:21Job 6:10 4 Job 6:10 4 and I am pureS Job 10:7 in your sight.' 4 Job 10:7
5 Oh, how I wish that God would speak,Ex 20:19; Job 23:5; 32:13; 38:1 5 that he would open his lips against you
6 and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom,S Job 9:41Co 2:10 6 Job 9:4 6 for true wisdom has two sides. 6 Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.S Ezr 9:13S Job 15:5 6 Ezr 9:13; Job 15:5
7 "Can you fathomS Job 5:9Ecc 3:11Ro 11:33 the mysteries of God? 7 Ecc 3:11; Ro 11:33 7 Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
8 They are higherEph 3:18 than the heavensS Ge 15:5Job 22:1225:2; Ps 57:10; Isa 55:9—what can you do? 8 Job 22:12 8 They are deeper than the depths of the grave[c] Hebrew than SheolS Job 7:9—what can you know?Job 15:13,25; 33:13; 40:2; Ps 139:8 8 Ps 139:8
9 Their measureEph 3:19-20 is longer than the earth 9 and wider than the sea.Job 22:12; 35:5; 36:26; 37:5,23; Isa 40:26 9 Isa 40:26
10 "If he comes along and confines you in prison 10 and convenes a court, who can oppose him?S Job 9:12; Rev 3:7 10 Job 9:12; Rev 3:7
11 Surely he recognizes deceitful men; 11 and when he sees evil, does he not take note?S Job 10:4; 31:37; 34:11,25; 36:7Job 34:21-25Ps 10:14 11 Job 34:21-25; Ps 10:14
12 But a witless man can no more become wise 12 than a wild donkey's coltS Ge 16:12 can be born a man.[d] Or wild donkey can be born tameS 2Ch 6:36
13 "Yet if you devote your heart1Sa 7:3; Ps 78:8 to him 13 1Sa 7:3; Ps 78:8 13 and stretch out your handsS Ex 9:29 to him,S Job 5:8,27Ps 88:9 13 Ps 88:9
14 if you put awayS Jos 24:14 the sin that is in your hand 14 and allow no evilPs 101:4 to dwell in your tent,Job 22:23 14 Job 22:23; Ps 101:4
15 then you will lift up your faceJob 22:261Jn 3:21 without shame; 15 Jn 3:21 15 you will stand firmS 1Sa 2:9; Ps 20:8; 37:23; 40:2; 119:5; Eph 6:14 and without fear.S Ge 4:7; S Ps 3:6
16 You will surely forget your trouble,Isa 26:16; 37:365:16 16 Isa 65:16 16 recalling it only as waters gone by.Jos 7:5Job 22:11Ps 58:7; 112:10; Eze 21:7 16 Job 22:11
17 Life will be brighter than noonday,Job 22:28Ps 37:6; Isa 58:8,1062:1 17 Ps 37:6; Isa 58:8,10 17 and darkness will become like morning.Job 17:12; 18:6; 29:3; Ps 18:28; 112:4; 119:105; Isa 5:20; Jn 8:12
18 You will be secure, because there is hope; 18 you will look about you and take your restPs 3:54:8; 127:2; Ecc 5:12 in safety.S Lev 26:6; Pr 3:24Isa 11:10; 14:3; 28:12; 30:15; 32:18; Zec 3:10 18 Lev 26:6; Ps 3:5; Pr 3:24
19 You will lie down, with no one to make you afraid,S Lev 26:6 19 Lev 26:6 19 and many will court your favor.Isa 45:14 19 Isa 45:14
20 But the eyes of the wicked will fail,Dt 28:65Job 17:5 20 Dt 28:65; Job 17:5 20 and escape will elude them;Job 12:10; 18:1827:22; 34:2236:6; Ps 139:11-12; Jer 11:11; 23:24; 25:35; Am 2:14; 9:2-3 20 their hope will become a dying gasp."S Job 8:13 20 Job 8:13 Job 12
1 Job
1 Then Job replied:
2 "Doubtless you are the people, 2 and wisdom will die with you!Job 15:817:10 2 Job 17:10
3 But I have a mind as well as you; 3 I am not inferior to you. 3 Who does not know all these things?Job 13:215:9 3 Job 13:2
4 "I have become a laughingstockS Ge 38:23Job 21:3 to my friends,S Job 6:14; S 11:3; S 16:10; S 19:14 4 Job 21:3 4 though I called upon God and he answeredPs 91:15— 4 Ps 91:15 4 a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!S Ge 6:9; S Job 6:29S 15:16 4 Job 6:29
5 Men at ease have contemptPs 123:4 for misfortune 5 as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.Ps 17:5; 37:31; 38:16; 66:9; 73:2; 94:18
6 The tents of marauders are undisturbed,S Job 5:24Job 22:18 6 Job 22:18 6 and those who provoke God are secureS Job 9:2421:9— 6 Job 9:24; 21:9 6 those who carry their god in their hands.[e] Or secure / in what God's hand brings them
7 "But ask the animals, and they will teach you,Job 35:11 fn 7 or the birds of the air,Mt 6:26 and they will tell you;Job 18:3; Ro 1:20 7 Mt 6:26
8 or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, 8 or let the fish of the sea inform you.
9 Which of all these does not knowIsa 1:3 9 that the hand of the Lord has done this?S Job 9:24Isa 41:20 9 Isa 41:20
10 In his hand is the lifeDa 5:23 of every creature 10 and the breath of all mankind.S Ge 2:7; S Nu 16:22; S Job 11:20Job 27:3; 33:4Ac 17:28 10 Job 27:3; 33:4; Ac 17:28
11 Does not the ear test words 11 as the tongue tastes food?Job 34:3 11 Job 34:3
12 Is not wisdom found among the aged?S 1Ki 4:2Job 15:10 12 Job 15:10 12 Does not long life bring understanding?ver 20Job 17:432:7,934:4,10 12 Job 32:7,9
13 "To God belong wisdomJob 11:6Pr 21:30; Isa 45:9 and power;S Job 9:4S Jer 32:19; 1Co 1:24 13 Job 9:4 13 counsel and understanding are his.S Nu 23:19; 1Ki 3:12Job 32:8; 38:36Pr 2:6; Isa 40:13-14; Da 1:17 13 Job 32:8
14 What he tears downJob 16:919:10 cannot be rebuilt;Dt 13:16Job 37:7Ps 127:1Isa 24:2025:2Eze 26:14 14 Job 19:10; 37:7; Isa 25:2 14 the man he imprisons cannot be released.S Job 9:3; Isa 22:22; Rev 3:7
15 If he holds back the waters,Job 28:25; Isa 40:121Ki 8:35 there is drought;S Dt 28:22; S 1Ki 17:1 15 1Ki 8:35; 17:1 15 if he lets them loose, they devastate the land.S Ge 7:24Ge 7:11 15 Ge 7:11
16 To him belong strength and victory;S Job 9:4 16 both deceived and deceiver are his.2Ch 18:22Job 13:7,927:4; Ro 2:11 16 Job 13:7,9
17 He leads counselors away strippedver 19Job 19:9Isa 20:4 17 Job 19:9 17 and makes fools of judges.S Job 3:141Co 1:20 17 Job 3:14
18 He takes off the shacklesPs 107:14116:16Na 1:13 put on by kings 18 Ps 116:16 18 and ties a loincloth[f] Or shackles of kings / and ties a belt around their waist.ver 21; Job 34:18; Ps 107:40; Isa 5:27; 40:23
19 He leads priests away strippedS ver 17 19 and overthrows men long established.S Dt 24:15; S Job 9:24; 14:20; 22:824:12,22; 34:20,28; 35:9Isa 2:22; 31:8; 40:17,23; Jer 25:18; Da 2:21,34; Lk 1:52 19 Job 24:12,22
20 He silences the lips of trusted advisers 20 and takes away the discernment of elders.S ver 12,24; Da 4:33-34Job 32:9 20 Job 32:9
21 He pours contempt on noblesS ver 18; S Isa 34:12 21 and disarms the mighty.S Job 3:15
22 He reveals the deep things of darkness1Co 4:5 22 1Co 4:5 22 and brings deep shadowsJob 3:5 into the light.Ps 139:12Da 2:22 22 Job 3:5; Da 2:22
23 He makes nations great, and destroys them;Ps 2:1; 46:6; Isa 13:4Jer 25:9 23 Jer 25:9 23 he enlarges nations,S Ex 34:24Ps 107:38; Isa 9:326:1554:3 and disperses them.S Job 5:12; Ac 17:26 23 Ps 107:38; Isa 9:3
24 He deprives the leaders of the earth of their reason;S ver 20 24 he sends them wandering through a trackless waste.Ps 107:40
25 They grope in darkness with no light;S Dt 28:29; Job 18:6; 21:17; 29:3Job 5:14 25 Job 5:14 25 he makes them stagger like drunkards.Ps 107:27; Isa 24:20 25 Ps 107:27; Isa 24:20
