^[1]  My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint on 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 you contend with me.

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^[3]  Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and shine on the counsel of the wicked?

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^[4]  Have you eyes of flesh? or see you as man sees?

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^[5]  Are your days as the days of man? are your years as man’s days,

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^[6]  That you enquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

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^[7]  You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of your hand.

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^[8]  Your hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet you do destroy me.

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^[9]  Remember, I beseech you, that you have made me as the clay; and will you bring me into dust again?

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^[10]  Have you not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?

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^[11]  You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and have fenced me with bones and sinews.

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^[12]  You have granted me life and favor, and your visitation has preserved my spirit.

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^[13]  And these things have you hid in your heart: I know that this is with you.

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^[14]  If I sin, then you mark me, and you will 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 you my affliction;

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^[16]  For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion: and again you show yourself marvelous on me.

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^[17]  You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me; changes and war are against me.

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^[18]  Why then have you 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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^[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 from where I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

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^[22]  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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