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10:1  My nefesh is sick of my life; I will give free rein to my si’akh (complaint); I will speak in the mar (bitterness) of my nefesh.
10:2  I will say unto Eloah, Do not condemn me; show me what charge Thou dost contend with me.
10:3  Is it hatov (pleasing) unto Thee that Thou shouldest oppress, that Thou shouldest reject the work of Thine hands, and shine [favor] upon the etzah (scheme) of the resha’im?
10:4  Hast Thou eyes of basar? Or seest Thou as enosh seeth?
10:5  Are Thy yamim like the yamim of enosh? Are Thy years like the days of gever (man),
10:6  That Thou seekest after mine avon, and searchest after my chattat?
10:7  Though Thou has da’as that I am not a resha, and there is none that can deliver out of Thine yad,
10:8  Thine yadayim have formed me and altogether round about have fashioned me; yet Thou hast now swallowed me.
10:9  Remember, now, that Thou hast molded me like the chomer (clay), and wilt Thou turn me into aphar again?
10:10  Hast Thou not poured me out like cholov, and curdled me like gvinah (cheese)?
10:11  Thou hast clothed me with ohr and basar, and hast knitted me together with atzmot and sinews.
10:12  Thou hast granted me chayyim and chesed, and Thy visitation hath been shomer over my ruach.
10:13  And these things hast Thou hid in Thine lev; I have da’as that this was in Thy mind.
10:14  If I sin, then Thou art shomer over me, and Thou wilt not let my avon go unpunished.
10:15  If I am guilty, woe unto me; even if I be tzaddik (innocent), yet will I not lift up my head, being full of kalon (shame) and conscious of my oni (misery),
10:16  For if my head is held high, Thou stalkest me like a fierce lion, and ever Thou displayest Thy awesome power against me.
10:17  Thou bringest Thy fresh edim (witnesses) against me, and increasest Thine hot indignation toward me; in waves Thy tzava troop against me.
10:18  Why then hast Thou brought me forth out of the rechem (womb)? Oh that I had expired, and no eye had seen me!
10:19  I should have been as though I had never been; I should have been carried from the beten straight to the kever.
10:20  Are not my yamim few? Then cease, and let me alone, that I may take a little cheer
10:21  Before I go from where I shall not return, even to the Eretz Choshech V’Tzalmavet,
10:22  An eretz of darkness, like darkness itself; and of tzalmavet, no sedarim (order), where the light is like darkness.