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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 thou dost contend against me. 10:3 Does it seem good to thee to oppress, to despise the work of thy hands and favor the designs of the wicked? 10:4 Hast thou eyes of flesh? Dost thou see as man sees? 10:5 Are thy days as the days of man, or thy years as man's years, 10:6 that thou dost seek out my iniquity and search for my sin, 10:7 although thou knowest that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of thy hand? 10:8 Thy hands fashioned and made me;and now thou dost turn about and destroy me. 10:9 Remember that thou hast made me of clay;and wilt thou turn me to dust again? 10:10 Didst thou not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese? 10:11 Thou didst clothe me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. 10:12 Thou hast granted me life and steadfast love;and thy care has preserved my spirit. 10:13 Yet these things thou didst hide in thy heart;I know that this was thy purpose. 10:14 If I sin, thou dost mark me, and dost 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 And if I lift myself up, thou dost hunt me like a lion, and again work wonders against me; 10:17 thou dost renew thy witnesses against me, and increase thy vexation toward me;thou dost bring fresh hosts against me. 10:18 'Why didst thou 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 whence I shall not return, to the land of gloom and deep darkness, 10:22 the land of gloom and chaos, where light is as darkness.'