Job 10 Summary

Job declares his soul weary of life and lays his complaint before himself, speaking in bitterness. He begs God not to condemn him but to show him why God contends with him. Job questions whether it is good for God to oppress and despise the work of His own hands while shining upon the counsel of the wicked. He asks if God has eyes of flesh and sees as men see, or if His days are as man's days that He must search after Job's iniquity and sin. Job reminds God that he is not wicked and cannot escape God's hand. He recalls that God fashioned him from clay, clothed him with skin and flesh, and granted him life and favor. Yet despite God's creation of him, God now destroys him. Job protests that if he sins, God marks him; whether wicked or righteous, he cannot lift up his head. He describes God as hunting him like a fierce lion and asks why God brought him forth from the womb, wishing he had died unborn and gone straight to the grave—to that land of darkness and shadow where even light is like darkness.