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"I am disgusted with my life. Let me complain freely. My bitter soul must complain. |
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I will say to God, 'Don't simply condemn me-- tell me the charge you are bringing against me. |
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What do you gain by oppressing me? Why do you reject me, the work of your own hands, while smiling on the schemes of the wicked? |
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Are your eyes like those of a human? Do you see things only as people see them? |
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Is your lifetime only as long as ours? Is your life so short |
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that you must quickly probe for my guilt and search for my sin? |
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Although you know I am not guilty, no one can rescue me from your hands. |
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" 'You formed me with your hands; you made me, yet now you completely destroy me. |
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Remember that you made me from dust-- will you turn me back to dust so soon? |
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You guided my conception and formed me in the womb. |
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You clothed me with skin and flesh, and you knit my bones and sinews together. |
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You gave me life and showed me your unfailing love. My life was preserved by your care. |
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" 'Yet your real motive-- your true intent-- |
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was to watch me, and if I sinned, you would not forgive my guilt. |
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If I am guilty, too bad for me; and even if I'm innocent, I can't hold my head high, because I am filled with shame and misery. |
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And if I hold my head high, you hunt me like a lion and display your awesome power against me. |
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Again and again you witness against me. You pour out your growing anger on me and bring fresh armies against me. |
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" 'Why, then, did you deliver me from my mother's womb? Why didn't you let me die at birth? |
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It would be as though I had never existed, going directly from the womb to the grave. |
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I have only a few days left, so leave me alone, that I may have a moment of comfort |
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before I leave-- never to return-- for the land of darkness and utter gloom. |
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It is a land as dark as midnight, a land of gloom and confusion, where even the light is dark as midnight.'" |
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