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¹ "I hate my own life, so I will complain freely.
    I am very bitter, so now I will speak.
² I will say to God, ‘Don't just say I am guilty!
    Tell me what you have against me.
³ Do you enjoy hurting me?
    Do you enjoy ignoring me while smiling at what evil people say?
⁴ Do you have human eyes?
    Do you see things the way people do?
⁵ Is your life as short as ours?
    Is your life as short as a man's life?
⁶ You look for my wrong
    and search for my sin.
⁷ You know I am innocent,
    but no one can save me from your power!
⁸ Your hands made me and shaped my body.
    But now they are closing around me and squeezing me to death!
⁹ Remember, you molded me like clay.
    Will you turn me into clay again?
¹⁰ You poured me out like milk.
    You spun me around and squeezed me like someone making cheese.
¹¹ You put me together with bones and muscles,
    and then you clothed me with skin and flesh.
¹² You gave me life and were very kind to me.
    You cared for me and watched over my spirit.
¹³ But this is what you hid in your heart.
    Now I know what you were planning for me.
¹⁴ If I sinned, you would be watching me
    so that you could punish me for doing wrong.
¹⁵ If I sin, I am guilty
    and should be cursed.
But even when I am innocent,
    I cannot lift up my head.
I am so ashamed
    because of all the troubles I have.
¹⁶ If I have any success and feel proud,
    you hunt me down like a lion
    and show your power over me.
¹⁷ You bring witness after witness
    to prove that I am wrong.
Again and again you show your anger
    as you send army after army against me.
¹⁸ So why did you let me be born?
    I wish I had died before anyone saw me.
¹⁹ I wish I had never lived.
    I wish they had carried me from my mother's womb straight to the grave.
²⁰ My life is almost finished.
    So leave me alone!
    Let me enjoy the little time I have left.
²¹ I am going soon to the land of no return,
    the place of death and darkness—
²² that land of darkest night, of shadows and confusion,
    where even the light is darkness.'"