Story · 6 parts

Job Pleads With God

Job, weary of life, openly confronts God — questioning why the one who fashioned him now destroys him — and pleads for brief relief before death.

Job

The road

1. 1 · Job declares his soul's weariness and resolves to speak bitterly to GodJob 10:1–2
2. 2 · Job challenges God to show why He contends against him and questions whether God sees as mortals doJob 10:3–7
3. 3 · Job reminds God that His own hands fashioned him and asks why He would destroy His own handiworkJob 10:8–12
4. 4 · Job accuses God of hiding a purpose to mark and punish him regardless of his guilt or innocenceJob 10:13–17
5. 5 · Job laments why he was ever born and wishes he had gone straight from womb to graveJob 10:18–19
6. 6 · Job pleads for a brief respite before descending to the dark land of no returnJob 10:20–22

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