Job 10

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¹“I am disgusted with my life. Let me complain freely. My bitter soul must complain. ✦ ²I will say to God, ‘Don’t simply condemn me— tell me the charge you are bringing against me. ✦ ³What do you gain by oppressing me? Why do you reject me, the work of your own hands, while smiling on the schemes of the wicked? ✦ ⁴Are your eyes like those of a human? Do you see things only as people see them? ✦ ⁵Is your lifetime only as long as ours? Is your life so short ✦ ⁶that you must quickly probe for my guilt and search for my sin? ✦ ⁷Although you know I am not guilty, no one can rescue me from your hands. ✦ ⁸“‘You formed me with your hands; you made me, yet now you completely destroy me. ✦ ⁹Remember that you made me from dust— will you turn me back to dust so soon? ✦ ¹⁰You guided my conception and formed me in the womb. ✦ ¹¹You clothed me with skin and flesh, and you knit my bones and sinews together. ✦ ¹²You gave me life and showed me your unfailing love. My life was preserved by your care. ✦ ¹³“‘Yet your real motive— your true intent— ✦ ¹⁴was to watch me, and if I sinned, you would not forgive my guilt. ✦ ¹⁵If I am guilty, too bad for me; and even if I’m innocent, I can’t hold my head high, because I am filled with shame and misery. ✦ ¹⁶And if I hold my head high, you hunt me like a lion and display your awesome power against me. ✦ ¹⁷Again and again you witness against me. You pour out your growing anger on me and bring fresh armies against me. ✦ ¹⁸“‘Why, then, did you deliver me from my mother’s womb? Why didn’t you let me die at birth? ✦ ¹⁹It would be as though I had never existed, going directly from the womb to the grave. ✦ ²⁰I have only a few days left, so leave me alone, that I may have a moment of comfort ✦ ²¹before I leave—never to return— for the land of darkness and utter gloom. ✦ ²²It is a land as dark as midnight, a land of gloom and confusion, where even the light is dark as midnight.’” ✦

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Job 9 ·11 Job 14 ·7 Job 7 ·7 Ps 139 ·5 Job 3 ·5 Job 23 ·5 Job 34 ·4 Job 10 ·4

Christ at the center

Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.

How Job 10 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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