Job 10:13–22

¹³And these things didst thou hide in thy heart; I know that this was with thee.

¹⁴If I sinned, thou wouldest mark me, and thou wouldest not acquit me of mine iniquity. ¹⁵If I were wicked, woe unto me! and righteous, I will not lift up my head, being so full of shame, and beholding mine affliction; — ¹⁶And it increaseth: thou huntest me as a fierce lion; and ever again thou shewest thy marvellous power upon me. ¹⁷Thou renewest thy witnesses before me and increasest thy displeasure against me; successions of evil and a time of toil are with me. ¹⁸And wherefore didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? I had expired, and no eye had seen me. ¹⁹I should be 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 revive a little, ²¹Before I go, and never to return, —to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; ²²A land of gloom, as darkness itself; of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as thick darkness.