What does Job Chapter 10 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Exhausted by unrelenting grief, Job gives voice to his weariness of life and allows his speech to flow in the bitterness of his soul. Turning directly to God, he petitions the Almighty not to condemn him without revealing why He judges him so severely. Job questions whether it pleases God to calumniate and oppress the work of His own hands while seemingly favoring the counsel of the wicked. He asks whether God possesses eyes of flesh or sees through the limited perspective of mortal men, and whether divine days and years resemble transient human lifespans, that God should conduct an inquiry into his iniquity and search out his sin. Job emphasizes that God already knows he has done no wicked deed, and that no human power can rescue anyone out of the divine hand.

In Job’s continuing speech, Job appeals directly to God's intimate creative workmanship, noting that the Lord's own hands fashioned and shaped him wholly round about, yet now cast him down headlong without warning. He beseeches God to remember that He formed him out of clay, and says He will bring him into dust. Using vivid somatic imagery, Job reminds the Creator how He milked him like milk and curdled him like cheese, clothed him with skin and flesh, and knit him firmly together with bones and sinews. God granted him life and merciful favor, and divine visitation carefully preserved his spirit. Although God kept these designs hidden within His heart, Job knows that the Almighty remembers all things.

In Job’s continuing speech, Job reflects upon the crushing weight of divine scrutiny: he asks why, if he has sinned and God has spared him for an hour, God does not let him be clean from his iniquity. If he is wicked, sorrow and woe overtake him; yet even if he is just, he cannot lift up his head, being completely saturated with affliction and misery. He says that for pride God will take him as a lioness and, returning, torment him wonderfully. God continually renews hostile witnesses against him, multiplies divine wrath, and pains war against him.

In Job’s continuing speech, overwhelmed by this unrelenting assault, Job cries out asking why God brought him forth from the womb at all, lamenting that he had not perished before any human eye could behold him. Had he died at birth, he would have been as though he had never existed, carried directly from the womb to the grave. Recognizing that his remaining days are exceedingly few, Job pleads for a brief reprieve from suffering so that he may lament his sorrow a little before he departs forever without return. He describes the land to which he says he is going as a dark land enveloped in the mist of death—a realm of misery and deep darkness, where the shadow of death and complete disorder dwell, and where everlasting horror reigns.