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10:1  "I loathe my own life; I will give full vent to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
10:2  "I will say to God, 'Do not condemn me; Let me know why You contend with me.
10:3  'Is it right for You indeed to oppress, To reject the labor of Your hands, And to look favorably on the schemes of the wicked?
10:4  'Have You eyes of flesh? Or do You see as a man sees?
10:5  'Are Your days as the days of a mortal, Or Your years as man's years,
10:6  That You should seek for my guilt And search after my sin?
10:7  'According to Your knowledge I am indeed not guilty, Yet there is no deliverance from Your hand.
10:8  'Your hands fashioned and made me altogether, And would You destroy me?
10:9  'Remember now, that You have made me as clay; And would You turn me into dust again?
10:10  'Did You not pour me out like milk And curdle me like cheese;
10:11  Clothe me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews?
10:12  'You have granted me life and lovingkindness; And Your care has preserved my spirit.
10:13  'Yet these things You have concealed in Your heart; I know that this is within You:
10:14  If I sin, then You would take note of me, And would not acquit me of my guilt.
10:15  If I am wicked, woe to me! And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head. I am sated with disgrace and conscious of my misery.
10:16  Should my head be lifted up, You would hunt me like a lion; And again You would show Your power against me.
10:17  'You renew Your witnesses against me And increase Your anger toward me; Hardship after hardship is with me.
10:18  'Why then have You brought me out of the womb? Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!
10:19  'I should have been as though I had not been, Carried from womb to tomb.'
10:20  "Would He not let my few days alone? Withdraw from me that I may have a little cheer
10:21  Before I go-- and I shall not return-- To the land of darkness and deep shadow,
10:22  The land of utter gloom as darkness itself, Of deep shadow without order, And which shines as the darkness."