10“aMy soul is loathed by my life;I will abandonall restraint in myself to bmy complaint;I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.2“I will say to God, ‘aDo not account me as wicked;Let me know why You contend with me.3‘Is it good to You that You aoppress,That You rejectbthe labor of Your hands,And 1cause cthe counsel of the wicked to shineforth?4‘Have You eyes of flesh?Or do You asee as a mortalmansees?5‘Are Your days as the days of a mortalman,OraYour years as man’syears,6That aYou should seek for my guiltAnd search after my sin?7‘According to Your knowledgeaI amindeed not wicked,Yet thereisbno1deliverer from Your hand.8‘aYour handsfashioned and made me 1altogether,bAnd would You swallow me up?9‘Remembernow, that You have made me as aclay;And would You bturn me into dustagain?10‘Did You not pour me out like milkAnd curdle me like cheese,11Clothe me with skin and flesh,And knit me together with bones and sinews?12‘You have amade alongside me life and lovingkindness;And Your care has kept my spirit.13‘Yet athesethings You have concealed in Your heart;I know that this is within You:14If I sin, then You would atakenote of meAnd bwould not acquit me of my guilt.15‘IfaI amwicked, woe to me!And bif I amrighteous, I dare not liftup my head.I amsated with disgrace—so see my misery!16‘Should my head be set on high, aYou would hunt me like a lion;And again You would show Your bwonders against me.17‘You renewaYour witnessesagainst meAnd increase Your vexationtoward me;1,bHardship after hardship is with me.18‘aWhy then have You brought me out of the womb?Would that I had breathed my last and noeye had seen me!19‘I should have been as though I had not been,Carried from womb to tomb.’20“Would He not ceaseafor a few of my days?1,bWithdraw from me that I may have a littlecheer21Before I go—aand I shall not return—bTo the land of darkness and cshadow of death,22The land of uttergloom as thethickdarknessitself,Of the shadow of death, withoutorder,And which shines as the thickdarkness.”
