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¹ I am sick of life!
And from my deep despair,
    I complain to you, my God.
² Don't just condemn me!
    Point out my sin.
³ Why do you take such delight
in destroying those you created
    and in smiling on sinners?
⁴ Do you look at things
    the way we humans do?
⁵ Is your life as short as ours?
⁶ Is that why you are so quick
    to find fault with me?
⁷ You know I am innocent,
but who can defend me
    against you?
⁸ Will you now destroy
    someone you created?
⁹ Remember that you molded me
    like a piece of clay.
So don't turn me back
    into dust once again.
¹⁰ As cheese is made from milk,
you created my body
    from a tiny drop.
¹¹ Then you tied my bones together
with muscles
and covered them
    with flesh and skin.
¹² You, the source of my life,
showered me with kindness
    and watched over me.

¹³ You have not explained
    all of your mysteries,
¹⁴ but you catch and punish me
    each time I sin.
¹⁵ Guilty or innocent,
I am condemned and ashamed
    because of my troubles.
¹⁶ No matter how hard I try,
you keep hunting me down
    like a powerful lion.^[a]
17 You never stop accusing me;
you become furious and attack
    over and over again.

¹⁸ Why did you let me be born?
I would rather have died
    before birth
¹⁹ and been carried to the grave
    without ever breathing.
²⁰ I have only a few days left.
Why don't you leave me alone?^[b]
    Let me find some relief,
²¹ before I travel to the land
²² of darkness and despair,
    the place of no return.