Job:9:26: They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
Job:9:27: If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
Job:9:28: I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
Job:9:29: If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
Job:9:30: If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
Job:9:31: Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
Job:9:32: For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
Job:9:33: Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
Job:9:34: Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
Job:9:35: Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.

Chapter 10

Job:10:1: My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job:10:2: I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
Job:10:3: Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
Job:10:4: Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
Job:10:5: Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man’s days,
Job:10:6: That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
Job:10:7: Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
Job:10:8: Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
Job:10:9: Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Job:10:10: Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
Job:10:11: Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
Job:10:12: Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
Job:10:13: And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.
Job:10:14: If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
Job:10:15: If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
Job:10:16: For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
Job:10:17: Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
Job:10:18: Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
Job:10:19: I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
Job:10:20: Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
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