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¹ My soule is cut off though I liue: I wil leaue my complaint vpon my selfe, & wil speake in the bitternesse of my soule.² I will say vnto God, Condemne mee not: shew me, wherefore thou contendest with mee.³ Thinkest thou it good to oppresse me, and to cast off the labour of thine handes, and to fauour the counsel of the wicked?⁴ Hast thou carnall eyes? or doest thou see as man seeth?⁵ Are thy dayes as mans dayes? or thy yeres, as the time of man,⁶ That thou inquirest of mine iniquitie, and searchest out my sinne?⁷ Thou knowest that I can not do wickedly: for none can deliuer me out of thine hand.

⁸ Thine handes haue made me, and fashioned mee wholy rounde about, and wilt thou destroy me?⁹ Remeber, I pray thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and wilt thou bring me into dust againe?¹⁰ Hast thou not powred me out as milke? & turned me to cruds like cheese?¹¹ Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and ioyned me together with bones and sinewes.¹² Thou hast giuen me life, & grace: & thy visitation hath preserued my spirit.¹³ Though thou hast hid these things in thine heart, yet I knowe that it is so with thee.

¹⁴ If I haue sinned, then thou wilt streightly looke vnto me, and wilt not holde mee giltlesse of mine iniquitie.¹⁵ If I haue done wickedly, wo vnto me: if I haue done righteously, I will not lift vp mine head, being full of confusion, because I see mine affliction.¹⁶ But let it increase: hunt thou me as a lyon: returne and shew thy selfe marueilous vpon me.¹⁷ Thou renuest thy plagues against me, and thou increasest thy wrath against me: changes and armies of sorowes are against me.¹⁸ Wherfore then hast thou brought me out of the wombe? Oh that I had perished, and that none eye had seene me!¹⁹ And that I were as I had not bene, but brought from the wombe to the graue!²⁰ Are not my dayes fewe? let him cease, and leaue off from me, that I may take a litle comfort,²¹ Before I goe and shall not returne, euen to the land of darkenesse and shadow of death:²² Into a land, I say, darke as darknes it selfe, and into the shadow of death, where is none order, but the light is there as darkenesse.