10:1 “I am weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
10:2 I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me; tell me why you are contending with me.’
10:3 Is it good for you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?
10:4 “Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as a human sees?
10:5 Are your days like the days of a human, or your years like the years of a human,
10:6 that you must search out my iniquity, and inquire about my sin,
10:7 although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?
10:8 “Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.
10:9 Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?
10:10 Did you not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?
10:11 You clothed me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews.
10:12 You gave me life and favor, and your intervention watched over my spirit.
10:13 “But these things you have concealed in your heart; I know that this is with you:
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, woe to me, and if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head; I am full of shame, and satiated with my affliction.
10:16 If I lift myself up, you hunt me as a fierce lion, and again you display your power against me.
10:17 You bring new witnesses against me, and increase your anger against me; relief troops come against me.