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Job 10:1

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My soul is weary of my life. I will release my words against myself. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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And he continued on, into the desert, for one day's journey. And when he had arrived, and was sitting under a juniper tree, he requested for his soul that he might die. And he said: "It is enough for me, O Lord. Take my soul. For I am no better than my fathers."

Who will grant this to me, that you will protect me in the underworld, and hide me until your fury passes by, and establish a time for me, in which you will remember me?

Now, of course, if I have been ignorant, my ignorance will be with me.

During famine, he will rescue you from death, and during war, from the hand of the sword.

You prepare speeches as so much noise, and you offer words into the wind.

And because of this, I will not restrain my mouth. I will speak in the affliction of my spirit. I will converse from the bitterness of my soul.

I despair; by no means will I live any longer. Spare me, for my days are nothing.

And if I now became simple, my soul would be ignorant even of this, and my life would weary me.

What can I say, or what would he answer me, since he himself has done this? I will acknowledge to you all my years, in the bitterness of my soul.

Behold, in peace my bitterness is most bitter. But you have rescued my soul, so that it would not perish. You have cast all my sins behind your back.

And now, Lord, I ask you to take my life from me. For it is better for me to die than to live."

And when the sun had risen, the Lord ordered a hot and burning wind. And the sun beat down on the head of Jonah, and he burned. And he petitioned for his soul that he might die, and he said, "It is better for me to die than to live."

But if it seems to you otherwise, I beg you to put me to death, and so may I find grace in your eyes, lest I be afflicted with such evils."




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