Job 10:2-3

Job Continues: A Plea to God

2 I will say to God, Do not x condemn me;
let me know why you y contend against me.
3 z Does it seem good to you to oppress,
to despise a the work of your hands
b and favor the designs of the wicked?

  1. Cross References
    Job 9:29
    I shall be condemned; why then do I labor in vain?
  2. Cross References
    Job 9:3
    If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
  3. Cross References
    Job 13:9
    Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?
    Psalms 89:38
    But now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed.
  4. Cross References
    Job 14:15
    You would call, and I would answer you; you would long for the work of your hands.
    Psalms 138:8
    The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.
    Isaiah 64:8
    But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.
  5. Cross References
    Job 9:24
    The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges - if it is not he, who then is it?
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