| 章 |
| 10:1 |
"I loathe my very life; therefore I will give free rein to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.
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| 10:2 |
I will say to God: Do not condemn me, but tell me what charges you have against me.
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| 10:3 |
Does it please you to oppress me, to spurn the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?
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| 10:4 |
Do you have eyes of flesh? Do you see as a mortal sees?
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| 10:5 |
Are your days like those of a mortal or your years like those of a man,
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| 10:6 |
that you must search out my faults and probe after my sin--
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| 10:7 |
though you know that I am not guilty and that no one can rescue me from your hand?
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| 10:8 |
"Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me?
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| 10:9 |
Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again?
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| 10:10 |
Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese,
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| 10:11 |
clothe me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews?
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| 10:12 |
You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit.
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| 10:13 |
"But this is what you concealed in your heart, and I know that this was in your mind:
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| 10:14 |
If I sinned, you would be watching me and would not let my offense go unpunished.
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| 10:15 |
If I am guilty--woe to me! Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head, for I am full of shame and drowned in my affliction.
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| 10:16 |
If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lion and again display your awesome power against me.
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| 10:17 |
You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger toward me; your forces come against me wave upon wave.
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| 10:18 |
"Why then did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died before any eye saw me.
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| 10:19 |
If only I had never come into being, or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!
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| 10:20 |
Are not my few days almost over? Turn away from me so I can have a moment's joy
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| 10:21 |
before I go to the place of no return, to the land of gloom and deep shadow,
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| 10:22 |
to the land of deepest night, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness."
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