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