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10:1 "I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. 10:2 I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me. 10:3 Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor 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, or your years like human years, 10:6 that you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin, 10:7 although you know that I am not guilty, and there is no one to deliver out of your hand? 10:8 Your hands fashioned and made me; and now you turn and destroy me. 10:9 Remember that you fashioned me like clay; and will you turn me to dust again? 10:10 Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese? 10:11 You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. 10:12 You have granted me life and steadfast love, and your care has preserved my spirit. 10:13 Yet these things you hid in your heart; I know that this was your purpose. 10:14 If I sin, you watch me, and do not acquit me of my iniquity. 10:15 If I am wicked, woe to me! If I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look upon my affliction. 10:16 Bold as a lion you hunt me; you repeat your exploits against me. 10:17 You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your vexation toward me; you bring fresh troops against me. 10:18 "Why did you bring me forth from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me, 10:19 and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave. 10:20 Are not the days of my life few? Let me alone, that I may find a little comfort 10:21 before I go, never to return, to the land of gloom and deep darkness, 10:22 the land of gloom and chaos, where light is like darkness."