Job 10:16 Explained in Context

Verse 14. ¹⁴ If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

Verse 15. ¹⁵ If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;

Verse 16. ¹⁶ For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

Verse 17. ¹⁷ Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

Verse 18. ¹⁸ Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

Verse 19. ¹⁹ I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

Verse 20. ²⁰ Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

Verse 21. ²¹ Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

Verse 22. ²² A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.