10"I loathe my very life; therefore I will give free rein to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.H5315H5354H2416H5800H7879H1696H4751H53152I say to God: Do not declare me guilty, but tell me what charges you have against me.H559H433H7561H3045H73783Does it please you to oppress me, to spurn the work of your hands, while you smile on the plans of the wicked?H2895H6231H3988H3018H3709H3313H6098H75634Do you have eyes of flesh? Do you see as a mortal sees?H5869H1320H7200H582H72005Are your days like those of a mortal or your years like those of a human being,H3117H3117H582H8141H1397H31176that you must search out my faults and probe after my sin—H1245H5771H1875H24037though you know that I am not guilty and that no one can rescue me from your hand?H1847H7561H5337H30278"Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me?H3027H6087H6213H3162H5439H11049Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again?H2142H6213H2563H7725H6083H772510Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese,H5413H2461H7087H138511clothe me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews?H3847H5785H1320H7753H6106H151712You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit.H6213H2416H2617H6486H8104H730713"But this is what you concealed in your heart, and I know that this was in your mind:H6845H3824H304514If I sinned, you would be watching me and would not let my offense go unpunished.H2398H8104H5352H577115If 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.H7561H480H6663H5375H7218H7649H7036H7202H7200H604016If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lion and again display your awesome power against me.H1342H6679H7826H7725H638117You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger toward me; your forces come against me wave upon wave.H2318H5707H7235H3708H5978H2487H663518"Why then did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died before any eye saw me.H3318H7358H1478H5869H720019If only I had never come into being, or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!H2986H990H691320Are not my few days almost over? Turn away from me so I can have a moment's joyH3117H4592H2308H2308H7896H7896H1082H459221before I go to the place of no return, to the land of gloom and utter darkness,H3212H7725H776H2822H675722to the land of deepest night, of utter darkness and disorder, where even the light is like darkness."H776H5890H652H6757H5468H3313H652
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