10:1 "I loathe my own life; I will give full vent to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. |
10:2 "I will say to God, `Do not condemn me; Let me know why You contend with me. |
10:3 `Is it right for You indeed to oppress, To reject the labor of Your hands, And to look favorably on the schemes of the wicked? |
10:4 `Have You eyes of flesh? Or do You see as a man sees? |
10:5 `Are Your days as the days of a mortal, Or Your years as man's years, |
10:6 That You should seek for my guilt And search after my sin? |
10:7 `According to Your knowledge I am indeed not guilty, Yet there is no deliverance from Your hand. |
10:8 `Your hands fashioned and made me altogether, And would You destroy me? |
10:9 `Remember now, that You have made me as clay; And would You turn me into dust again? |
10:10 `Did You not pour me out like milk And curdle me like cheese; |
10:11 Clothe me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews? |
10:12 `You have granted me life and lovingkindness; And Your care has preserved my spirit. |
10:13 `Yet these things You have concealed in Your heart; I know that this is within You: |
10:14 If I sin, then You would take note of me, And would not acquit me of my guilt. |
10:15 `If I am wicked, woe to me! And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head. {I am} sated with disgrace and conscious of my misery. |
10:16 `Should {my head} be lifted up, You would hunt me like a lion; And again You would show Your power against me. |
10:17 `You renew Your witnesses against me And increase Your anger toward me; Hardship after hardship is with me. |
10:18 `Why then have You brought me out of the womb? Would that I had died and no eye had seen me! |
10:19 `I should have been as though I had not been, Carried from womb to tomb.' |
10:20 "Would He not let my few days alone? Withdraw from me that I may have a little cheer |
10:21 Before I go--and I shall not return-- To the land of darkness and deep shadow, |
10:22 The land of utter gloom as darkness {itself,} Of deep shadow without order, And which shines as the darkness." |