Job 10:3
Good News Translation
Is it right for you to be so cruel? To despise what you yourself have made? And then to smile on the schemes of wicked people?

New Revised Standard Version
Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?

Contemporary English Version
Why do you take such delight in destroying those you created and in smiling on sinners?

New American Bible
Is it a pleasure for you to oppress, to spurn the work of your hands, and shine on the plan of the wicked?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Doth it seem good to thee that thou shouldst calumniate me, and oppress me, the work of thy own hands, and help the counsel of the wicked?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Doth it seem good to thee that thou shouldst calumniate me, and oppress me, the work of thy own hands, and help the counsel of the wicked?

Is it good

Job 34:5-7,18,19 For Job hath said: I am just, and God hath overthrown my judgment. . . .

Job 36:7-9,17,18 He will not take away his eyes from the just, and he placeth kings on the throne for ever, and they are exalted. . . .

Job 40:2,8 Shall he that contendeth with God be so easily silenced? surely he that reproveth God, ought to answer him. . . .

Lamentations 3:2-18 Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light. . . .

despise

Psalm 69:33 For the Lord hath heard the poor: and hath not despised his prisoners.

the work.

Job 14:15 Thou shalt call me, and I will answer thee: to the work of thy hands thou shalt reach out thy right hand.

Job 34:19 Who accepteth not the persons of princes: nor hath regarded the tyrant, when he contended against the poor man: for all are the work of his hands.

Psalm 138:8 The Lord will repay for me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: O despise not the works of thy hands.

Isaiah 64:8 And now, O Lord, thou art our father, and we are clay: and thou art our maker, and we all are the works of thy hands.

1 Peter 4:19 Wherefore let them also that suffer according to the will of God commend their souls in good deeds to the faithful Creator.

shine upon

Job 8:20 God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evil doer:

Jeremiah 12:1-3 Thou indeed, O Lord, art just, if I plead with thee, but yet I will speak what is just to thee: Why doth the way of the wicked prosper: why is it well with all them that transgress, and do wickedly? . . .

Context
Job's Plea to God
2I will say to God: Do not condemn me: tell me why thou judgest me so? 3Doth it seem good to thee that thou shouldst calumniate me, and oppress me, the work of thy own hands, and help the counsel of the wicked?4Hast thou eyes of flesh: or, shalt thou see as man seeth?…
Cross References
Job 9:22
One thing there is that I have spoken, both the innocent and the wicked he consumeth.

Job 9:24
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked, he covereth the face of the judges thereof: and if it be not he, who is it then?

Job 10:8
Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me wholly round about, and dost thou thus cast me down headlong on a sudden?

Job 14:15
Thou shalt call me, and I will answer thee: to the work of thy hands thou shalt reach out thy right hand.

Job 16:11
God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked.

Job 19:6
At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges.

Job 21:16
Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the counsel of the wicked be far from me.

Job 22:18
Whereas he had filled their houses with good things: whose way of thinking be far from me.

Job 27:2
As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who hath brought my soul to bitterness,

Job 30:21
Thou art changed to be cruel toward me, and in the hardness of thy hand thou art against me.

Job 31:15
Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb?

Job 33:4
The spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life.

Job 34:19
Who accepteth not the persons of princes: nor hath regarded the tyrant, when he contended against the poor man: for all are the work of his hands.

Job 40:8
Wilt thou make void my judgment: and condemn me, that thou mayst be justified?

Psalm 100:3
Know ye that the Lord he is God: he made us, and not we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.

Psalm 138:8
The Lord will repay for me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: O despise not the works of thy hands.

Isaiah 64:8
And now, O Lord, thou art our father, and we are clay: and thou art our maker, and we all are the works of thy hands.

Job 10:2
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