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- 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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- I will say unto God, Do not condemn me;
shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
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- Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
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- Hast thou eyes of flesh?
or seest thou as man seeth?
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- Are thy days as the days of man?
are thy years as man’s days,
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- That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
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- Thou knowest that I am not wicked;
and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
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- Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about;
yet thou dost destroy me.
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- Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay;
and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
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- Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
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- Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
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- Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
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- And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.
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- If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
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- If I be wicked, woe unto me;
and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
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- For it increaseth.
Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
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- Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me;
changes and war are against me.
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- Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb?
Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
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- 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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- Are not my days few?
cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
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- Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
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- A land of darkness, as darkness itself;
and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
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