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10:1  My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.
10:2  I say unto God, `Do not condemn me, Let me know why Thou dost strive [with] me.
10:3  Is it good for Thee that Thou dost oppress? That Thou despisest the labour of Thy hands, And on the counsel of the wicked hast shone?
10:4  Eyes of flesh hast Thou? As man seeth -- seest Thou?
10:5  As the days of man [are] Thy days? Thy years as the days of a man?
10:6  That Thou inquirest for mine iniquity, And for my sin seekest?
10:7  For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Thy hand.
10:8  Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up!
10:9  Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back.
10:10  Dost Thou not as milk pour me out? And as cheese curdle me?
10:11  Skin and flesh Thou dost put on me, And with bones and sinews dost fence me.
10:12  Life and kindness Thou hast done with me. And Thy inspection hath preserved my spirit.
10:13  And these Thou hast laid up in Thy heart, I have known that this [is] with Thee.
10:14  If I sinned, then Thou hast observed me, And from mine iniquity dost not acquit me,
10:15  If I have done wickedly -- wo to me, And righteously -- I lift not up my head, Full of shame -- then see my affliction,
10:16  And it riseth -- as a lion Thou huntest me. And Thou turnest back -- Thou shewest Thyself wonderful in me.
10:17  Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare [are] with me.
10:18  And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.
10:19  As I had not been, I am, From the belly to the grave I am brought,
10:20  Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,
10:21  Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,
10:22  A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade -- and no order, And the shining [is] as thick darkness.'