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10:1 My soule is cut off though I liue: I wil leaue my complaint vpon my selfe, and wil speake in the bitternesse of my soule.
10:2 I will say vnto God, Condemne mee not: shew me, wherefore thou contendest with mee.
10:3 Thinkest thou it good to oppresse me, and to cast off the labour of thine handes, and to fauour the counsel of the wicked?
10:4 Hast thou carnall eyes? or doest thou see as man seeth?
10:5 Are thy dayes as mans dayes? or thy yeres, as the time of man,
10:6 That thou inquirest of mine iniquitie, and searchest out my sinne?
10:7 Thou knowest that I can not do wickedly: for none can deliuer me out of thine hand.
10:8 Thine handes haue made me, and fashioned mee wholy rounde about, and wilt thou destroy me?
10:9 Remember, I pray thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and wilt thou bring me into dust againe?
10:10 Hast thou not powred me out as milke? and turned me to cruds like cheese?
10:11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and ioyned me together with bones and sinewes.
10:12 Thou hast giuen me life, and grace: and thy visitation hath preserued my spirit.
10:13 Though thou hast hid these things in thine heart, yet I knowe that it is so with thee.
10:14 If I haue sinned, then thou wilt streightly looke vnto me, and wilt not holde mee giltlesse of mine iniquitie.
10:15 If I haue done wickedly, wo vnto me: if I haue done righteously, I will not lift vp mine head, being full of confusion, because I see mine affliction.
10:16 But let it increase: hunt thou me as a lyon: returne and shew thy selfe marueilous vpon me.
10:17 Thou renuest thy plagues against me, and thou increasest thy wrath against me: changes and armies of sorowes are against me.
10:18 Wherfore then hast thou brought me out of the wombe? Oh that I had perished, and that none eye had seene me!
10:19 And that I were as I had not bene, but brought from the wombe to the graue!
10:20 Are not my dayes fewe? let him cease, and leaue off from me, that I may take a litle comfort,
10:21 Before I goe and shall not returne, euen to the land of darkenesse and shadow of death:
10:22 Into a land, I say, darke as darknes it selfe, and into the shadow of death, where is none order, but the light is there as darkenesse.