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10:1  I am weary of my life and loathe it! I will give free expression to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
10:2  I will say to God, Do not condemn me [do not make me guilty]! Show me why You contend with me.
10:3  Does it seem good to You that You should oppress, that You should despise and reject the work of Your hands, and favor the schemes of the wicked?
10:4  Have You eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?
10:5  Are Your days as the days of man, are Your years as man’s [years],
10:6  That You inquire after my iniquity and search for my sin—
10:7  Although You know that I am not wicked or guilty and that there is none who can deliver me out of Your hand?
10:8  Your hands have formed me and made me. Would You turn around and destroy me?
10:9  Remember [earnestly], I beseech You, that You have fashioned me as clay [out of the same earth material, exquisitely and elaborately]. And will You bring me into dust again?
10:10  Have You not poured me out like milk and curdled me like cheese?
10:11  You have clothed me with skin and flesh and have knit me together with bones and sinews.
10:12  You have granted me life and favor, and Your providence has preserved my spirit.
10:13  Yet these [the present evils] have You hid in Your heart [for me since my creation]; I know that this was with You [in Your purpose and thought].
10:14  If I sin, then You observe me, and You will not acquit me from my iniquity and guilt.
10:15  If I am wicked, woe unto me! And if I am righteous, yet must I not lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and the sight of my affliction.
10:16  If I lift myself up, You hunt me like a lion and again show Yourself [inflicting] marvelous [trials] upon me.
10:17  You renew Your witnesses against me and increase Your indignation toward me; I am as if attacked by a troop time after time.
10:18  Why then did You bring me forth out of the womb? Would that I had perished and no eye had seen me!
10:19  I should have been as though I had not existed; 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 a little comfort and cheer up
10:21  Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,
10:22  The land of sunless gloom as intense darkness, [the land] of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as thick darkness.