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| [1]My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. |
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| [2]I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why thou contendest with me. |
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| [3]Is it good to thee that thou shouldst oppress, that thou shouldst despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked? |
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| [4]Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth? |
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| [5]Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days, |
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| [6]That thou inquirest after my iniquity, and searchest after my sin? |
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| [7]Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thy hand. |
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| [8]Thy hands have made me and fashioned me in all my parts; yet thou dost destroy me. |
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| [9]Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again? |
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| [10]Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? |
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| [11]Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews. |
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| [12]Thou hast granted me life and favor, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. |
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| [13]And these things hast thou hid in thy heart: I know that this is with thee. |
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| [14]If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from my iniquity. |
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| [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; |
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| [16]For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou showest thyself wonderful upon me. |
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| [17]Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thy indignation upon me; changes and war are against me. |
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| [18]Why then hast thou brought me forth from the womb? O that I had expired, and no eye had seen me! |
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| [19]I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. |
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| [20]Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, |
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| [21]Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness, and the shades of death; |
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| [22]A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shades of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness. |
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