Job 10:13–22

¹³“ ‘Yet^l you hid these things in your heart;

I know that this was your purpose.^m

¹⁴If I had sinned, thenⁿ you would be watching me,

and you would not acquit me of my guilt.

¹⁵If I am guilty, woe to me!

But^o if I am righteous, I dare not lift my head;

I am filled with shame, and just look at my misery!

¹⁶And if my head grows bold, you would hunt me as the lion in its prime;

and you repeat your exploits against me.^p

¹⁷You renew your witnesses against me,

and you increase your vexation against me;

relief forces^q are against me.

¹⁸So^r why did you bring me forth from the womb?

I should have passed away, and no eye should have seen me.^s

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

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

²⁰Are not my days few? Let him leave me alone;

let him turn from me, and let me rejoice a little.

²¹Before I go—and I will not return—

to the land of darkness and deep shadow,

²²to the land of darkness,

like the darkness of a deep shadow and chaos,^t

so that^u it shines forth like darkness.’ ”