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\c 10
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\q1
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\v 1 I detest living any longer.
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\q1 I will not stop saying why I am complaining.
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\q2 Since I am very unhappy, I will speak.
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\q1
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\v 2 I will say to God, 'Do not just say that you must punish me;
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\q2 in addition, tell me what wrong you saw that I have done.
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\q1
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\v 3 Does it please you to oppress me,
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\q2 to abandon me, whom you created,
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\q2 and, at the same time, to help wicked people to do the things that they plan to do?
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\q1
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\v 4 Do you understand things the way that we humans do?
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\q1
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\v 5 Do you live for only a few years, like [as] we do?
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\q1
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\v 6 So why do you continue to search for my faults
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\q2 and to hunt for my sins?
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\q1
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\v 7 You know that I am not guilty,
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\q2 and that no one can rescue me from your power.
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\q1
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\v 8 With your hands you created me and shaped my body,
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\q2 but now you are deciding that you should not have done that, and you are destroying me instead.
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\q1
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\v 9 Do not forget that you made me from a piece of clay;
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\q2 are you going to cause me to become soil again?
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\q1
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\v 10 You certainly formed me when I was conceived,
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\q2 and you put me together inside my mother's womb.
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\q1
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\v 11 You fastened my bones together with sinews,
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\q2 and then you covered them with flesh inside my skin.
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\q1
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\v 12 You have caused me to be alive; you have faithfully loved me,
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\q2 and you have carefully preserved me.
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\q1
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\v 13 But you kept secret what you were planning to do to me;
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\q2 I am certain that you were planning to do these things to me.
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\q1
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\v 14 You were watching to see if I would sin,
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\q2 so that, if I did sin, you would refuse to forgive me.
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\q1
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\v 15 If I am a wicked man, I hope that terrible things will happen to me.
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\q1 But even if I am righteous, I still must bow my head and feel ashamed
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\q2 because I am very disgraced and feel miserable.
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\q1
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\v 16 And if I am proud, you hunt me like a lion hunts for some animal to kill,
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\q2 and you act powerfully to injure me.
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\q1
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\v 17 You constantly find more witnesses to testify that I have done what is wrong,
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\q2 and you continually become more angry with me.
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\q2 It is as though you are [were] always bringing new troops to attack me.
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\q1
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\v 18 God, why did you allow me to be born?
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\q2 I wish had died when I was born, and that no one had ever seen me.
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\q1
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\v 19 I think it would have been better if I had been carried directly from my mother's womb to the grave
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\q2 than for me to live.
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\q1
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\v 20 I think that there are only a few days for me to remain alive;
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\q2 so allow me to be alone, in order that I may have a little peace
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\q1
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\v 21 before I go to the place from which I will never return,
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\q2 [a place] where it is always gloomy and very dark,
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\q1
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\v 22 a place of darkness and dark shadows where everything is confused
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\q2 [and] where even the small light there is like darkness.'"
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