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¹ I am tired of living.
    Listen to my bitter complaint.
² Don't condemn me, God.
    Tell me! What is the charge against me?
³ Is it right for you to be so cruel?
    To despise what you yourself have made?
    And then to smile on the schemes of wicked people?
⁴ Do you see things as we do?
⁵     Is your life as short as ours?
⁶ Then why do you track down all my sins
    and hunt down every fault I have?
^7 (a)You know that I am not guilty,
    that no one can save me from you.

⁸ Your hands formed and shaped me,
    and now^[a] those same hands destroy me.
⁹ Remember that you made me from clay;^[b]
    are you going to crush me back to dust?
^10 (b)You gave my father strength to beget me;
    you made me grow in my mother's womb.
¹¹ You formed my body with bones and sinews
    and covered the bones with muscles and skin.
¹² You have given me life and constant love,
    and your care has kept me alive.
¹³ But now I know that all that time
    you were secretly planning to harm me.
¹⁴ You were watching to see if I would sin,
    so that you could refuse to forgive me.
¹⁵ As soon as I sin, I'm in trouble with you,
    but when I do right, I get no credit.
I am miserable and covered with shame.^[c]
16 If I have any success at all,
    you hunt me down like a lion;
    to hurt me you even work miracles.
¹⁷ You always have some witness against me;
    your anger toward me grows and grows;
    you always plan some new attack.

¹⁸ Why, God, did you let me be born?
    I should have died before anyone saw me.
¹⁹ To go from the womb straight to the grave
    would have been as good as never existing.
²⁰ Isn't my life almost over? Leave me alone!
    Let me enjoy the time I have left.
²¹ I am going soon and will never come back—
    going to a land that is dark and gloomy,
²²     a land of darkness, shadows, and confusion,
    where the light itself is darkness.