10:1 I AM weary of my life {and} loathe it! I will give free expression to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. |
10:2 I will say to God, Do not condemn me [do not make me guilty]! Show me why You contend with me. |
10:3 Does it seem good to You that You should oppress, that You should despise {and} reject the work of Your hands, and favor the schemes of the wicked? |
10:4 Have You eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees? |
10:5 Are Your days as the days of man, are Your years as man's [years], |
10:6 That You inquire after my iniquity and search for my sin-- |
10:7 Although You know that I am not wicked {or} guilty and that there is none who can deliver me out of Your hand? |
10:8 Your hands have formed me and made me. Would You turn around and destroy me? |
10:9 Remember [earnestly], I beseech You, that You have fashioned me as clay [out of the same earth material, exquisitely and elaborately]. And will You bring me into dust again? |
10:10 Have You not poured me out like milk and curdled me like cheese? |
10:11 You have clothed me with skin and flesh and have knit me together with bones and sinews. |
10:12 You have granted me life and favor, and Your providence has preserved my spirit. |
10:13 Yet these [the present evils] have You hid in Your heart [for me since my creation]; I know that this was with You [in Your purpose and thought]. |
10:14 If I sin, then You observe me, and You will not acquit me from my iniquity {and} guilt. |
10:15 If I am wicked, woe unto me! And if I am righteous, yet must I not lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and the sight of my affliction. |
10:16 If I lift myself up, You hunt me like a lion and again show Yourself [inflicting] marvelous [trials] upon me. |
10:17 You renew Your witnesses against me and increase Your indignation toward me; I am as if attacked by a troop time after time. |
10:18 Why then did You bring me forth out of the womb? Would that I had perished and no eye had seen me! |
10:19 I should have been as though I had not existed; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. |
10:20 Are not my days few? Cease then and let me alone, that I may take a little comfort {and} cheer up |
10:21 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death, |
10:22 The land of sunless gloom as intense darkness, [the land] of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as thick darkness. |