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¹ "I ^(a)loathe my life;
I will give free utterance to my ^(b)complaint;
    I will speak in ^(c)the bitterness of my soul.
² I will say to God, Do not ^(d)condemn me;
    let me know why you ^(e)contend against me.
^3 (f)Does it seem good to you to oppress,
    to despise ^(g)the work of your hands
    ^(h)and favor the designs of the wicked?
⁴ Have you ⁽ⁱ⁾eyes of flesh?
    ^(j)Do you see as man sees?
⁵ Are your days as the days of man,
    or your ^(k)years as a man's years,
⁶ that you ^(l)seek out my iniquity
    and search for my sin,
⁷ although you ^(m)know that I am not guilty,
    and there is ⁽ⁿ⁾none to deliver out of your hand?
^8 (o)Your hands fashioned and made me,
    and now you have destroyed me altogether.
⁹ Remember that you have made me like ^(p)clay;
    and will you return me to the ^(q)dust?
¹⁰ Did you not pour me out like milk
    and curdle me like cheese?
¹¹ You clothed me with skin and flesh,
    and knit me together with bones and sinews.
¹² You have granted me life and steadfast love,
    and your care has preserved my spirit.
¹³ Yet these things you hid in your heart;
    I know that ^(r)this was your purpose.
¹⁴ If I sin, you ^(s)watch me
    and do not ^(t)acquit me of my iniquity.
^15 (u)If I am guilty, woe to me!
    If I am ^(v)in the right, I cannot lift up my head,
for I am filled with disgrace
    and ^(w)look on my affliction.
¹⁶ And were my head lifted up,^[a] you would hunt me like ^(x)a lion
    and again work ^(y)wonders against me.
¹⁷ You renew your ^(z)witnesses against me
    and increase your vexation toward me;
    you ^(aa)bring fresh troops against me.

^18 (ab)"Why did you bring me out from the womb?
    Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
^19 (ac)and were as though I had not been,
    carried from the womb to the grave.
^20 (ad)Are not my days few?
    ^(ae)Then cease, and leave me alone, ^(af)that I may find a little cheer
²¹ before I go—and ^(ag)I shall not return—
    to the land of ^(ah)darkness and ^(ai)deep shadow,
²² the land of gloom like thick darkness,
    like deep shadow without any order,
    where light is as thick darkness."