10:1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
10:2 I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why thou contendest with me.
10:3 [Is it] good to thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
10:4 Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
10:5 [Are] thy days as the days of man? [are] thy years as mans days,
10:6 That thou enquirest after my iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
10:7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and [there is] none that can deliver out of thy hand.
10:8 Thy hands have made me and fashioned me in all my parts; yet thou dost destroy me.
10:9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
10:10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
10:11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
10:12 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy care hath preserved my spirit.
10:13 And these [things] hast thou hid in thy heart: I know that this [is] with thee.
10:14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from my iniquity.
10:15 If I be wicked, woe to me; and [if] I be righteous, [yet] will I not lift up my head. [I am] full of confusion; therefore see thou my affliction;
10:16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me.
10:17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thy indignation upon me; changes and war [are] against me.
10:18 Why then hast thou brought me forth from the womb? O that I had given up the ghost, 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 [to the place from which] I shall not return, [even] to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
10:22 A land of darkness, as darkness [itself; and] of the shadow of death, without any order, and [where] the light [is] as darkness.