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10:1  "I hate my life. I will freely express my complaint. I will speak as bitterly as I feel.
10:2  I will say to God, 'Don't condemn me. Let me know why you are quarreling with me.
10:3  What do you gain by mistreating me, by rejecting the work of your hands while you favor the plans of the wicked?
10:4  Do you actually have human eyes? Do you see as a mortal sees?
10:5  Are your days like a mortal's days? Are your years like a human's years?
10:6  Is that why you look for guilt in me and search for sin in me?
10:7  You know I'm not guilty, but there is no one to rescue me from your hands.
10:8  " 'Your hands formed me and made every part of me, then you turned to destroy me.
10:9  Please remember that you made me out of clay and that you will return me to the dust again.
10:10  Didn't you pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?
10:11  Didn't you dress me in skin and flesh and weave me together with bones and tendons?
10:12  You gave me life and mercy. Your watchfulness has preserved my spirit.
10:13  But in your heart you hid these things. I know this is what you did.
10:14  " 'If I sin, you watch me and will not free me from my guilt.
10:15  How terrible it will be for me if I'm guilty! Even if I'm righteous, I dare not lift up my head. I am filled with disgrace while I look on my misery.
10:16  Like a proud, ferocious lion you hunt me down. You keep working your miracles against me.
10:17  You keep finding new witnesses against me. You keep increasing your anger toward me. You keep bringing new armies against me.
10:18  " 'Why did you take me out of the womb? I wish I had breathed my last breath before anyone had laid eyes on me.
10:19  Then it would be as if I had never existed, as if I had been carried from the womb to the tomb.
10:20  " 'Isn't my life short enough? So stop [this], and leave me alone. Let me smile a little
10:21  before I go away to a land of darkness and gloom,
10:22  to a dismal land of long shadows and confusion where light is as bright as darkness. I'll never return.' "