| 章 |
| 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.
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| 10:2 |
I will say unto +God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou strivest with me.
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| 10:3 |
Doth it please thee to oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
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| 10:4 |
Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
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| 10:5 |
Are thy days as the days of a mortal? are thy years as a man's days,
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| 10:6 |
That thou searchest after mine iniquity, and inquirest into my sin;
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| 10:7 |
Since thou knowest that I am not wicked, and that there is none that delivereth out of thy hand?
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| 10:8 |
Thy hands have bound me together and made me as one, round about; yet dost thou swallow me up!
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| 10:9 |
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as clay, and wilt bring me into dust again.
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| 10:10 |
Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
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| 10:11 |
Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews;
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| 10:12 |
Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy care hath preserved my spirit;
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| 10:13 |
And these things didst thou hide in thy heart; I know that this was with thee.
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| 10:14 |
If I sinned, thou wouldest mark me, and thou wouldest not acquit me of mine iniquity.
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| 10:15 |
If I were wicked, woe unto me! and righteous, I will not lift up my head, being [so] full of shame, and beholding mine affliction; --
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| 10:16 |
And it increaseth: thou huntest me as a fierce lion; and ever again thou shewest thy marvellous power upon me.
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| 10:17 |
Thou renewest thy witnesses before me and increasest thy displeasure against me; successions [of evil] and a time of toil are with me.
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| 10:18 |
And wherefore didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? I had expired, and no eye had seen me.
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| 10:19 |
I should be as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
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| 10:20 |
Are not my days few? cease then and let me alone, that I may revive a little,
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| 10:21 |
Before I go, and never to return, -- to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
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| 10:22 |
A land of gloom, as darkness itself; of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as thick darkness.
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