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Your own hands created me.
    So you should not be cruel to me. It is not right.
Instead, you are kind to wicked people.
    You help them to do the bad things that they want to do.
Do you see things as people see them?
    Are your eyes only like human eyes?[a]
Is your life like a human life?
    It is surely not as short as that!

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Footnotes

  1. 10:4 Job is asking God if he really sees what is true. Perhaps God is making a mistake when he says that Job is guilty.

Does it please you to oppress me,(A)
    to spurn the work of your hands,(B)
    while you smile on the plans of the wicked?(C)
Do you have eyes of flesh?
    Do you see as a mortal sees?(D)
Are your days like those of a mortal
    or your years like those of a strong man,(E)

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