10. You gave my father strength to beget me;you made me grow in my mother's womb.
11. You formed my body with bones and sinewsand covered the bones with muscles and skin.
12. You have given me life and constant love,and your care has kept me alive.
13. But now I know that all that timeyou were secretly planning to harm me.
14. You were watching to see if I would sin,so that you could refuse to forgive me.
15. As soon as I sin, I'm in trouble with you,but when I do right, I get no credit.I am miserable and covered with shame.
16. If I have any success at all,you hunt me down like a lion;to hurt me you even work miracles.
17. You always have some witness against me;your anger towards me grows and grows;you always plan some new attack.
18. Why, God, did you let me be born?I should have died before anyone saw me.
19. To go from the womb straight to the gravewould have been as good as never existing.
20. Isn't my life almost over? Leave me alone!Let me enjoy the time I have left.
21. I am going soon and will never come back —going to a land that is dark and gloomy,