10:2 I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn 1 me;
tell me 2 why you are contending 3 with me.’
10:3 Is it good for you 4 to oppress, 5
to 6 despise the work of your hands,
while 7 you smile 8
on the schemes of the wicked?
10:4 “Do you have eyes of flesh, 9
or do you see 10 as a human being sees? 11
10:5 Are your days like the days of a mortal,
or your years like the years 12 of a mortal,
10:6 that 13 you must search out 14 my iniquity,
and inquire about my sin,
10:7 although you know 15 that I am not guilty,
and that there is no one who can deliver 16
out of your hand?
10:8 “Your hands have shaped 17 me and made me,
but 18 now you destroy me completely. 19
10:9 Remember that you have made me as with 20 the clay;
will 21 you return me to dust?
10:10 Did you not pour 22 me out like milk,
and curdle 23 me like cheese? 24
10:11 You clothed 25 me with skin and flesh
and knit me together 26 with bones and sinews.
10:12 You gave me 27 life and favor, 28
and your intervention 29 watched over my spirit.
10:13 “But these things 30 you have concealed in your heart;
I know that this 31 is with you: 32
10:14 If I sinned, then you would watch me
and you would not acquit me of my iniquity.
10:15 If I am guilty, 33 woe 34 to me,
and if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head; 35
I am full of shame, 36
and satiated with my affliction. 37
10:16 If I lift myself up, 38
you hunt me as a fierce lion, 39
and again 40 you display your power 41 against me.
10:17 You bring new witnesses 42 against me,
and increase your anger against me;
relief troops 43 come against me.
10:18 “Why then did you bring me out from the womb?
I should have died 44
and no eye would have seen me!
10:19 I should have been as though I had never existed; 45
I should have been carried
right from the womb to the grave!
10:20 Are not my days few? 46
Cease, 47 then, and leave 48 me alone, 49
that I may find a little comfort, 50
10:21 before I depart, never to return, 51
to the land of darkness
and the deepest shadow, 52