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10:1  “My soul is weary of my life; 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; show me why Thou contendest with me.
10:3  Is it good unto Thee that Thou shouldest oppress, that Thou shouldest despise the work of Thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
10:4  Hast Thou eyes of flesh, or seest Thou as man seeth?
10:5  Are Thy days as the days of man? Are Thy years as man’s days,
10:6  that Thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
10:7  Thou knowest that I am not wicked, and there is none that can deliver out of Thine hand.
10:8  “‘Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet Thou dost destroy me.
10:9  Remember, I beseech Thee, that Thou hast made 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 protected me with bones and sinews.
10:12  Thou hast granted me life and favor, and Thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
10:13  “‘And these things hast Thou hid in Thine heart; I know that this is with Thee:
10:14  If I sin, then Thou markest me, and Thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
10:15  If I be wicked, woe unto me! And if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see Thou mine affliction,
10:16  for it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion, and again Thou showest Thyself marvelous upon me.
10:17  Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, and increasest Thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
10:18  Why then hast Thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, 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 whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death”
10:22  a land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death without any order, and where the light is as darkness.’”