^10:1 My soul is weary of my life. I will give free reign to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. ^10:2 I will say to God, Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me. ^10:3 Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

    ^10:4 Have you eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees? ^10:5 Are your days as the days of man, or your years as man's days, ^10:6 that you inquire after my iniquity and search after my sin, ^10:7 although you know that I am not wicked. And there is none that can deliver out of your hand?

    ^10:8 Your hands have made me and fashioned me together all around, yet you destroy me. ^10:9 I beseech you, remember that you have fashioned me as clay. And will you bring me into dust again? ^10:10 Have you not poured me out as milk and curdled me like cheese?

    ^10:11 You have clothed me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and muscles. ^10:12You have granted me life and loving kindness and your visitation has preserved my spirit. ^10:13 Yet these things you hid in your heart. I know that this is with you.

    ^10:14 If I sin, then you mark me. And you will not acquit me from my iniquity. ^10:15 If I am wicked, woe to me. And if I am righteous, yet I will not lift up my head, being filled with shame and looking upon my affliction.

    ^10:16 And if my head exalts itself, you hunt me as a lion. And again you show yourself marvelous upon me. ^10:17 You renew your witnesses against me and increase your indignation upon me. Changes and warfare are with me.

    ^10:18 Why then have you brought me forth out of the womb? I would have given up the spirit and no eye had seen me. ^10:19 I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

    ^10:20 Are not my days few? Cease then and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little ^10:21 before I go where I will not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death, ^10:22 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order and where the light is as midnight.