1.9 KiB
Chapter 10
- I am disgusted with my life.
I will give vent to my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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I will say to God, "Do not declare me guilty! Let me know why you prosecute me.
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Is it good for you to oppress, to reject the work of your hands, and favor the plans of the wicked?
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Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as a human sees?
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Are your days like those of a human, or your years like those of a man,
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that you look for my iniquity and search for my sin,
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even though you know that I am not wicked and that there is no one who can rescue from your power?
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"Your hands shaped me and formed me. Will you now turn and destroy me?
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Please remember that you formed me like clay. Will you now return me to dust?
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Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?
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You clothed me with skin and flesh, and wove me together with bones and tendons.
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You gave me life and faithful love, and your care has guarded my life.
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"Yet you concealed these thoughts in your heart; I know that this was your hidden plan:
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if I sin, you would notice, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.
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If I am wicked, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head. I am filled with shame and have drunk deeply of my affliction.
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If I am proud, you hunt me like a lion and again display your miraculous power against me.
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You produce new witnesses against me and multiply your anger toward me. Hardships assault me, wave after wave.
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"Why did you bring me out of the womb? I should have died and never been seen.
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I wish I had never existed but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
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Are my days not few? Stop it! Leave me alone, so that I can smile a little
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before I go to a land of darkness and gloom, never to return.
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It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness, gloomy and chaotic, where even the light is like the darkness."