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