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10:1  “I hate my life, so I will complain without holding back; I will speak because I am so unhappy.
10:2  I will say to God: Do not hold me guilty, but tell me what you have against me.
10:3  Does it make you happy to trouble me? Don’t you care about me, the work of your hands? Are you happy with the plans of evil people?
10:4  Do you have human eyes that see as we see?
10:5  Are your days like the days of humans, and your years like our years?
10:6  You look for the evil I have done and search for my sin.
10:7  You know I am not guilty, but no one can save me from your power.
10:8  “Your hands shaped and made me. Do you now turn around and destroy me?
10:9  Remember that you molded me like a piece of clay. Will you now turn me back into dust?
10:10  You formed me inside my mother like cheese formed from milk.
10:11  You dressed me with skin and flesh; you sewed me together with bones and muscles.
10:12  You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your care you watched over my life.
10:13  “But in your heart you hid other plans. I know this was in your mind.
10:14  If I sinned, you would watch me and would not let my sin go unpunished.
10:15  How terrible it will be for me if I am guilty! Even if I am right, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and experience only pain.
10:16  If I hold up my head, you hunt me like a lion and again show your terrible power against me.
10:17  You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger against me. Your armies come against me.
10:18  “So why did you allow me to be born? I wish I had died before anyone saw me.
10:19  I wish I had never lived, but had been carried straight from birth to the grave.
10:20  The few days of my life are almost over. Leave me alone so I can have a moment of joy.
10:21  Soon I will leave; I will not return from the land of darkness and gloom,
10:22  the land of darkest night, from the land of gloom and confusion, where even the light is darkness.”