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Job 10:1

Modern English Version

“My soul loathes my life; I will freely give my complaint, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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But he went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree and asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough! Now, O  Lord, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”

“Oh, that You would hide me in the grave, that You would conceal me until Your wrath is past, that You would appoint me a set time and remember me!

And if indeed I have erred, my error remains with me.

In famine He will redeem you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

Do you mean to correct my words, and treat my desperate words as wind?

“Therefore, I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

I loathe my life; I would not live forever; let me alone, for my days are emptiness.

“Though I were perfect, I would not know myself; I would despise my life.

What shall I say? For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it. I shall wander about all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

Behold, it was for my own peace that I had great bitterness; but You have kept my soul from the pit of corruption, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

Therefore, Lord, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah so that he became faint and asked that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

If You do this to me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your eyes, and do not let me see my misery.”




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