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href="footnotes.htm#fn22010003-1">*</a> Is it a pleasure for you to oppress,</p> <p class="sl1">to spurn the work of your hands,</p> <p class="sl1">and shine on the plan of the wicked?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22010004" class="ver">4</span>Have you eyes of flesh?</p> <p class="sl1">Do you see as mortals see?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22010005" class="ver">5</span>Are your days like the days of a mortal,<a id="ren22010005-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22010005-b">b</a></p> <p class="sl1">and are your years like a human lifetime,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22010006" class="ver">6</span>That you seek for guilt in me</p> <p class="sl1">and search after my sins,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22010007" class="ver">7</span>Even though you know that I am not wicked,<a id="ren22010007-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22010007-c">c</a></p> <p class="sl1">and that none can deliver me out of your hand?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22010008" class="ver">8</span>Your hands have formed me and fashioned me;</p> <p class="sl1">will you then turn and destroy me?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22010009" class="ver">9</span>Oh, remember that you fashioned me from clay!<a id="ren22010009-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22010009-d">d</a></p> <p class="sl1">Will you then bring me down to dust again?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22010010" class="ver">10</span>Did you not pour me out like milk,</p> <p class="sl1">and thicken me like cheese?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22010011" class="ver">11</span>With skin and flesh you clothed me,</p> <p class="sl1">with bones and sinews knit me together.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22010012" class="ver">12</span>Life and love you granted me,</p> <p class="sl1">and your providence has preserved my spirit.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22010013" class="ver">13</span>Yet these things you have hidden in your heart;</p> <p class="sl1">I know they are your purpose:</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22010014" class="ver">14</span>If I should sin, you would keep a watch on me,</p> <p class="sl1">and from my guilt you would not absolve me.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22010015" class="ver">15</span>If I should be wicked, alas for me!</p> <p class="sl1">even if righteous, I dare not hold up my head,</p> <p class="sl1">sated with shame, drenched in affliction!</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22010016" class="ver">16</span>Should it lift up, you hunt me like a lion:</p> <p class="sl1">repeatedly you show your wondrous power against me,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22010017" class="ver">17</span>You renew your attack<a id="rfn22010017-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn22010017-1">*</a> upon me</p> <p class="sl1">and multiply your harassment of me;</p> <p class="sl1">in waves your troops come against me.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22010018" class="ver">18</span>Why then did you bring me forth from the womb?<a id="ren22010018-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22010018-e">e</a></p> <p class="sl1">I should have died and no eye have seen me.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22010019" class="ver">19</span>I should be as though I had never lived;</p> <p class="sl1">I should have been taken from the womb to the grave.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22010020" class="ver">20</span>Are not my days few? Stop!</p> <p class="sl1">Let me alone, that I may recover a little</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22010021" class="ver">21</span>Before I go whence I shall not return,<a id="ren22010021-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22010021-f">f</a></p> <p class="sl1">to the land of darkness and of gloom,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22010022" class="ver">22</span>The dark, disordered land</p> <p class="sl1">where darkness is the only light.</p> </div> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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