Job Chapter 10
The question" Why do innocent people suffer?" Is addressed in this biblical story.
American King James Version
10 : 1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint on myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
10 : 2 I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why you contend with me.
10 : 3 Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and shine on the counsel of the wicked?
10 : 4 Have you eyes of flesh? or see you as man sees?
10 : 5 Are your days as the days of man? are your years as man's days,
10 : 6 That you enquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?
10 : 7 You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of your hand.
10 : 8 Your hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet you do destroy me.
10 : 9 Remember, I beseech you, that you have made me as the clay; and will you bring me into dust again?
10 : 10 Have you not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
10 : 11 You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and have fenced me with bones and sinews.
10 : 12 You have granted me life and favor, and your visitation has preserved my spirit.
10 : 13 And these things have you hid in your heart: I know that this is with you.
10 : 14 If I sin, then you mark me, and you will not acquit me from my iniquity.
10 : 15 If I be wicked, woe to me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see you my affliction;
10 : 16 For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion: and again you show yourself marvelous on me.
10 : 17 You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me; changes and war are against me.
10 : 18 Why then have you brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
10 : 19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
10 : 20 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
10 : 21 Before I go from where I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
10 : 22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.