Job 10:17
You bring new witnesses against me, and increase your anger against me; relief troops come against me.
You bring new witnesses against me, and increase your anger against me; relief troops come against me.
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16If I lift myself up, you hunt me as a fierce lion, and again you display your power against me.
7Surely now he has worn me out, you have devastated my entire household.
8You have seized me, and it has become a witness; my leanness has risen up against me and testifies against me.
9His anger has torn me and persecuted me; he has gnashed at me with his teeth; my adversary locks his eyes on me.
10People have opened their mouths against me, they have struck my cheek in scorn; they unite together against me.
19He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.
20I cry out to you, but you do not answer me; I stand up, and you only look at me.
21You have become cruel to me; with the strength of your hand you attack me.
22You pick me up on the wind and make me ride on it; you toss me about in the storm.
11Thus his anger burns against me, and he considers me among his enemies.
12His troops advance together; they throw up a siege ramp against me, and they camp around my tent.
3These ten times you have been reproaching me; you are not ashamed to attack me!
2I will say to God,‘Do not condemn me; tell me why you are contending with me.’
10Yet God finds occasions with me; he regards me as his enemy!
18An Appeal for Relief“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!
10because of your anger and raging fury. Indeed, you pick me up and throw me away.
5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me,
26For you write down bitter things against me and cause me to inherit the sins of my youth.
3He repeatedly attacks me, he turns his hand against me all day long.
24Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy?
17he who crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds for no reason.
27I know where you live, and everything you do.
28I know where you live and everything you do and how you rage against me.
8Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?
10Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death!
3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?
12Am I the sea, or the creature of the deep, that you must put me under guard?
11He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.
10For my enemies talk about me; those waiting for a chance to kill me plot my demise.
3Why do you force me to witness injustice? Why do you put up with wrongdoing? Destruction and violence confront me; conflict is present and one must endure strife.
5He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship.
2Surely mockery is with me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.
8All day long my enemies taunt me; those who mock me use my name in their curses.
13his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.
14He breaks through against me, time and time again; he rushes against me like a warrior.
8Contradictions in God’s Dealings“Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.
13when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?
6that you must search out my iniquity, and inquire about my sin,
3because of what the enemy says, and because of how the wicked pressure me, for they hurl trouble down upon me and angrily attack me.
20You overpower him once for all, and he departs; you change his appearance and send him away.
10I hear many whispering words of intrigue against me. Those who would cause me terror are everywhere! They are saying,“Come on, let’s publicly denounce him!” All my so-called friends are just watching for something that would lead to my downfall. They say,“Perhaps he can be enticed into slipping up, so we can prevail over him and get our revenge on him.
11Violent men perjure themselves, and falsely accuse me.
10Did you not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?
18Even youngsters have scorned me; when I get up, they scoff at me.
17But now you are preoccupied with the judgment due the wicked, judgment and justice take hold of you.
7Your anger bears down on me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves.(Selah)
19But those who are my enemies for no reason are numerous; those who hate me without cause outnumber me.
14If I sinned, then you would watch me and you would not acquit me of my iniquity.
7There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.
10My enemies’ taunts cut into me to the bone, as they say to me all day long,“Where is your God?”