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  'Do you consider it right 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  'Have You spent 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 do not have guilt, Yet I find 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 resides 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 prove wicked, woe to me! And if I prove righteous, I dare not lift up my head. I feel sated with disgrace and conscious of my misery.

10:16  'Should my head lift 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 come after 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 seemed as though I had never existed, 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."