Job 10:13–22

¹³Yet these things thou didst hide in thy heart;

I know that this is with thee:

¹⁴If I sin, then thou markest me,

And thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

¹⁵If I be wicked, woe unto me;

And if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head;

Being filled with ignominy,

And looking upon mine affliction.

¹⁶And if my head exalt itself, thou huntest me as a lion;

And again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me.

¹⁷Thou renewest thy witnesses against me,

And increasest thine indignation upon me:

Changes and warfare are with me.

¹⁸Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb?

I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

¹⁹I should have been as though I had not been;

I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

²⁰Are not my days few? cease then,

And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

²¹Before I go whence I shall not return,

Even to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

²²The land dark as midnight,

The land of the shadow of death, without any order,

And where the light is as midnight.