on us both. 009:034 Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid; 009:035 then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself. 010:001 "My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. 010:002 I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me. 010:003 Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked? 010:004 Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees? 010:005 Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man's years, 010:006 that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin? 010:007 Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand. 010:008 "'Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me. 010:009 Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again? 010:010 Haven't you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese? 010:011 You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. 010:012 You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit. 010:013 Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you: 010:014 if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity. 010:015 If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction. 010:016 If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me. 010:017 You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me. 010:018 "'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me. 010:019 I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. 010:020 Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort, 010:021 before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; 010:022 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'" 011:001 Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered, 011:002 "Shouldn't the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified? 011:003 Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed? 011:004 For you say, 'My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.' 011:005 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you, 011:006 that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides.