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# Chapter 10
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1 “I am disgusted with my life.
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Let me complain freely.
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My bitter soul must complain.
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2 I will say to God, ‘Don’t simply condemn me—
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tell me the charge you are bringing against me.
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3 What do you gain by oppressing me?
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Why do you reject me, the work of your own hands,
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while smiling on the schemes of the wicked?
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4 Are your eyes like those of a human?
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Do you see things only as people see them?
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5 Is your lifetime only as long as ours?
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Is your life so short
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6 that you must quickly probe for my guilt
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and search for my sin?
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7 Although you know I am not guilty,
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no one can rescue me from your hands.
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8 “‘You formed me with your hands; you made me,
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yet now you completely destroy me.
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9 Remember that you made me from dust—
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will you turn me back to dust so soon?
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10 You guided my conception
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and formed me in the womb.
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11 You clothed me with skin and flesh,
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and you knit my bones and sinews together.
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12 You gave me life and showed me your unfailing love.
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My life was preserved by your care.
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13 “‘Yet your real motive—
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your true intent—
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14 was to watch me, and if I sinned,
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you would not forgive my guilt.
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15 If I am guilty, too bad for me;
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and even if I’m innocent, I can’t hold my head high,
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because I am filled with shame and misery.
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16 And if I hold my head high, you hunt me like a lion
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and display your awesome power against me.
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17 Again and again you witness against me.
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You pour out your growing anger on me
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and bring fresh armies against me.
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18 “‘Why, then, did you deliver me from my mother’s womb?
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Why didn’t you let me die at birth?
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19 It would be as though I had never existed,
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going directly from the womb to the grave.
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20 I have only a few days left, so leave me alone,
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that I may have a moment of comfort
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21 before I leave—never to return—
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for the land of darkness and utter gloom.
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22 It is a land as dark as midnight,
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a land of gloom and confusion,
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where even the light is dark as midnight.’” |