[1] My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
[1] ---
[2] I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; Show me wherefore thou contendest with me.
[2] ---
[3] Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, That thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, And shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
[3] ---
[4] Hast thou eyes of flesh? Or seest thou as man seeth?
[4] ---
[5] Are thy days as the days of man, Or thy years as man’s days,
[5] ---
[6] That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, And searchest after my sin,
[6] ---
[7] Although thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?
[7] ---
[8] Thy hands have framed me and fashioned me Together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
[8] ---
[9] Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?
[9] ---
[10] Hast thou not poured me out as milk, And curdled me like cheese?
[10] ---
[11] Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews.
[11] ---
[12] Thou hast granted me life and lovingkindness; And thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
[12] ---
[13] Yet these things thou didst hide in thy heart; I know that this is with thee:
[13] ---
[14] If I sin, then thou markest me, And thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
[14] ---
[15] If I be wicked, woe unto me; And if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head; Being filled with ignominy, And looking upon mine affliction.
[15] ---
[16] And ifmy head exalt itself, thou huntest me as a lion; And again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me.
[16] ---
[17] Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, And increasest thine indignation upon me: Changes and warfare are with me.
[17] ---
[18] Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.
[18] ---
[19] I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
[19] ---
[20] Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
[20] ---
[21] Before I go whence I shall not return, Evento the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
[21] ---
[22] The land dark as midnight, The landof the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.
