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10:1  "I am disgusted with living, so I'm going to talk about my complaint freely. I'll speak out from the bitterness of my soul.
10:2  I'll say to God, 'Don't condemn me! Let me know why you are fighting me.
10:3  Does it delight you to oppress or despise what you have made, while you smile at the plans of the wicked?
10:4  Do you have eyes made of flesh? Can you look at things as humans do?
10:5  Can you live only as long as a human being? Or live the years of a mortal man?
10:6  "'For you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin.
10:7  Although you know that I'm not guilty, there's no one to deliver me from you!
10:8  Your hands formed and fashioned me, but then you have destroyed me all at once on all sides.
10:9  "'Please remember that you've made me like clay and you'll return me to dust.
10:10  Didn't you pour me out like milk and let me congeal like cheese?
10:11  You covered me with skin and flesh, weaving me together with bones and sinews.
10:12  You gave life and gracious love to me; your providential care has preserved my spirit.
10:13  But you've hidden these things in your heart— I know this was your purpose:
10:14  If I sin, you watch me and won't acquit me for my iniquity.
10:15  "'Woe to me if I'm guilty! If I'm innocent, I cannot lift my head, because I am filled with disgrace. Look at my affliction!
10:16  But if I do lift up my head, you will hunt me like a lion! You will perform miracles in order to fight against me.
10:17  "'You have brought new witnesses against me, you're even more angry with me— you've brought fresh troops to attack me!
10:18  So why did you bring me out from the womb? I wish I had died, before anyone had seen me,
10:19  as if I had never existed; carried from the womb to the grave.
10:20  My days are so few, aren't they? So leave me alone, then, so I can smile a little
10:21  before I go, never to return, leaving for the land of deep darkness and shadow.
10:22  It's a gloomy land, like deepest darkness; where there's no order, and where even the brightness is like darkness.'"