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Job 10:17

Verse 17 of 22. The 10th of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.

13Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:

14if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

15If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

16If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.

17You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.

18“‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, 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.

20Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

21before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.