| 10.1 |
“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. |
| 10.2 |
I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me. |
| 10.3 |
Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked? |
| 10.4 |
Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees? |
| 10.5 |
Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man’s years, |
| 10.6 |
that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin? |
| 10.7 |
Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand. |
| 10.8 |
“‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me. |
| 10.9 |
Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again? |
| 10.10 |
Haven’t you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese? |
| 10.11 |
You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. |
| 10.12 |
You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit. |
| 10.13 |
Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you: |
| 10.14 |
if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity. |
| 10.15 |
If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction. |
| 10.16 |
If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me. |
| 10.17 |
You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me. |
| 10.18 |
“‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me. |
| 10.19 |
I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. |
| 10.20 |
Aren’t my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort, |
| 10.21 |
before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; |
| 10.22 |
the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’” |
