Today's Daily Reading
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Job

CHAPTER 10, verses 1-22

1 Job is weary of his life, and setteth out his fragility before God. 20 He desireth him to stay his hand. 22 A description of death.

(verses 1-10) My soul is cut off though I live: I will leave my complaint upon myself, and will speak in the bitterness of my soul. I will say unto God, Condemn me not: show me, wherefore thou contendest with me. Thinkest thou it good to oppress me, and to cast off the labor of thine hands, and to favor the counsel of the wicked? Hast thou carnal eyes? or dost thou see as man seeth? Are thy days as mans days? or thy years as the time of man, That thou inquirest of mine iniquity, and searchest out my sin? Thou knowest that I cannot do wickedly: for none can deliver me out of thine hand. Thine hands have made me, and fashioned me wholly round about, and wilt thou destroy me? Remember, I pray thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and wilt thou bring me into dust again? Hast thou not poured me out as milk? and turned me to curds like cheese?
   
(11-20) Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and joined me together with bones and sinews. Thou hast given me life, and grace: and the visitation hath preserved my spirit. Though thou hast hid these things in thine heart, yet I know that it is so with thee. If I have sinned, then thou wilt straightly look unto me, and wilt not hold me guiltless of mine iniquity. If I have done wickedly, woe unto me: if I have done righteously, I will not lift up mine head, being full of confusion, because I see mine affliction. But let it increase: hunt thou me as a lion: return and show thyself marvelous upon me. Thou renewest thy plagues against me, and thou increasest thy wrath against me: changes and armies of sorrows are against me. Wherefore then hast thou brought me out of the womb? Oh that I had perished, and that none eye had seen me! And that I were as I had not been, but brought from the womb to the grave! Are not my days few? let him cease, and leave off from me, that I may take a little comfort,
   
(21-22) Before I go and shall not return, even to the land of darkness and shadow of death: Into a land, I say, dark as darkness itself, and into the shadow of death, where is none order, but the light is there as darkness.

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