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10:1  “I hate my life. I will be free in my complaining. I will show how bitter I am in my soul when I speak.
10:2  I will say to God, ‘Do not say that I am guilty and punish me. Let me know why You work against me.
10:3  Do You think it is right for You to make it hard for me, to turn away from the work of Your hands and favor the plans of the sinful?
10:4  Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as a man sees?
10:5  Are Your days as the days of man, or Your years as man’s years,
10:6  that You should look for my wrong-doing and my sin?
10:7  You know that I am not guilty, yet there is no one who can take me away from Your hand.
10:8  ‘Your hands put me together and made me, and now would You destroy me?
10:9  Remember that You have made me as clay. Would You turn me into dust again?
10:10  Did You not pour me out like milk and make me become hard like cheese?
10:11  You have given me clothing of skin and flesh, and have tied me together with bones and cord.
10:12  You have given me life and loving-kindness. Your care has kept my spirit alive.
10:13  Yet You have hidden these things in Your heart. I know that this is in Your thoughts.
10:14  If I sin, You would see me, and would not free me from my guilt.
10:15  If I am sinful, it would be bad for me! If I am right and good, I cannot lift my head for I am filled with shame and see all my trouble.
10:16  If I would lift up my head, You would hunt me like a lion. Again You would show Your power against me.
10:17  You would send new ones who would speak against me, and become more angry with me. You would send me more and more trouble.
10:18  ‘Why then did You let me be born? If only I had died and no one had seen me!
10:19  I should have been as if I had never lived, carried from my mother to the grave.’
10:20  Are not my days few? Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort
10:21  before I go to a place from which I will not return. I will go to the land of darkness and shadow.
10:22  It is the land of complete darkness and shadow and trouble, where the light is darkness.”