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10:1  “I am just worn out. “By my life [I swear], I will never abandon my complaint; I will speak out in my soul’s bitterness.
10:2  I will say to God, ‘Don’t condemn me! Tell me why you are contending with me.
10:3  Do you gain some advantage from oppressing, from spurning what your own hands made, from shining on the schemes of the wicked?
10:4  Do you have eyes of flesh? Do you see as humans see?
10:5  Are your days like the days of mortals? Are your years like human years,
10:6  that you have to seek my guilt and search out my sin?
10:7  You know that I won’t be condemned, yet no one can rescue me from your power.
10:8  Your own hands shaped me, they made me; so why do you turn and destroy me?
10:9  Please remember that you made me, like clay; will you return me to dust?
10:10  Didn’t you pour me out like milk, then let me thicken like cheese?
10:11  You clothed me with skin and flesh you knit me together with bones and sinews.
10:12  You granted me life and grace; your careful attention preserved my spirit.
10:13  “‘Yet you hid these things in your heart; I know what your secret purpose was —
10:14  to watch until I would sin and then not absolve me of my guilt.
10:15  If I am wicked, woe to me! — but if righteous, I still don’t dare raise my head, because I am so filled with shame, so soaked in my misery.
10:16  You rise up to hunt me like a lion, and you keep treating me in such peculiar ways.
10:17  You keep producing fresh witnesses against me, your anger against me keeps growing, your troops assail me, wave after wave.
10:18  “‘Why did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died there where no eye could see me.
10:19  I would have been as if I had never existed, I would have been carried from womb to grave.
10:20  Aren’t my days few? So stop! Leave me alone, so I can cheer up a little
10:21  before I go to the place of no return, to the land of darkness and death-dark gloom,
10:22  a land of gloom like darkness itself, of dense darkness and utter disorder, where even the light is dark.’”