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10:1  My soul is cut off in my life; therefore, I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
10:2  I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; cause me to understand why thou dost contend with me.
10:3  Is it good unto thee that thou should oppress, that thou should reject the work of thine hands and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
10:4  Hast thou eyes of flesh? Dost thou see as man sees?
10:5  Are thy days as the days of man? Are thy years as man’s days,
10:6  that thou dost enquire after my iniquity and search after my sin?
10:7  Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is no one that can deliver out of thy hand.
10:8  Thine hands have formed me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
10:9  Remember now that thou hast formed me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
10:10  Hast thou not poured me out as milk and curdled me like cheese?
10:11  Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh and hast hedged me with bones and sinews.
10:12  Thou hast granted me life and mercy, and thy visitation has kept my spirit.
10:13  And these things thou hast hid in thine heart; I know that this is with thee.
10:14  If I sinned, wilt thou mark me and not cleanse me from my iniquity?
10:15  If I am wicked, woe unto me; and if I am righteous, I will not lift up my head, being full of dishonour and of seeing my affliction.
10:16  And thou dost increase. Thou dost hunt me as a fierce lion; turning and doing marvels in me.
10:17  Thou dost renew thy plagues against me and increase thine indignation upon me, bringing up armies against me.
10:18  Why then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the spirit and no eye had seen me!
10:19  I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
10:20  Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
10:21  before I go, to not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
10:22  land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.