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My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul
(10:1)
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; show me wherefore thou contendest with me
(10:2)
[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?
(10:3)
Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
(10:4)
[Are] thy days as the days of man? [are] thy years as man's days,
(10:5)
That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
(10:6)
Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and [there is] none that can deliver out of thine hand
(10:7)
Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me
(10:8)
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
(10:9)
Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
(10:10)
Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews
(10:11)
Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit
(10:12)
And these [things] hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this [is] with thee
(10:13)
If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity
(10:14)
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;
(10:15)
For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me
(10:16)
Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war [are] against me
(10:17)
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
(10:18)
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave
(10:19)
[Are] not my days few? cease [then, and] let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
(10:20)
Before I go [whence] I shall not return, [even] to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
(10:21)
A land of darkness, as darkness [itself; and] of the shadow of death, without any order, and [where] the light [is] as darkness
(10:22)
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