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¹ My soul loathes my life; I will leave my complaint on myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.² I will say to God, Do not condemn me; make me know why You contend with me.³ Is it good to You that You should crush, that You should despise the work of Your hands, and You shine on the counsel of the wicked?⁴ Have You eyes of flesh; or do You see as a man sees?⁵ Are Your days as the days of man? Or Your years like the days of man,⁶ that You seek out my iniquity, and search for my sin?⁷ You know that I am not wicked; and there is no one delivering out of Your hand.

⁸ Your hands have made me and shaped me together all around; yet You engulf me.⁹ Remember, I beseech You, that You have formed me as clay; and will You bring me to dust again?¹⁰ Did You not pour me out like milk; yea, curdled me like cheese?¹¹ You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knitted me with bones and sinews.¹² You have made me have life and favor, and Your providence has kept my spirit.¹³ And these You have hidden in Your heart; I know that this was with You.

¹⁴ If I sin, then You watch me; and You will not acquit me from my guilt.¹⁵ If I am wrong, woe to me! And if I am righteous, I will not lift up my head, being filled with shame and seeing my pain.¹⁶ And if it rise, You would hunt me as a lion; and again You show Yourself wonderful in me.¹⁷ You renew Your witnesses against me, and increase Your anger with me; changes and warfare are with me.¹⁸ Why then did You bring me from the womb? I would have died, and no eye seen me.¹⁹ I would have been as though I had never been, carried from the womb to the grave.²⁰ Are not my days few? Then cease and let me alone, that I may take a little comfort²¹ before I go; and I shall not return; to the land of darkness, and the shadow of death;²² a land of obscurity, the darkness of the shadow of death, and without any order; even the shining is as darkness.