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¹ "I hate my life,
    so I will complain without holding back;
    I will speak because I am so unhappy.
² I will say to God: Do not hold me guilty,
    but tell me what you have against me.
³ Does it make you happy to trouble me?
    Don't you care about me, the work of your hands?
    Are you happy with the plans of evil people?
⁴ Do you have human eyes
    that see as we see?
⁵ Are your days like the days of humans,
    and your years like our years?
⁶ You look for the evil I have done
    and search for my sin.
⁷ You know I am not guilty,
    but no one can save me from your power.

⁸ "Your hands shaped and made me.
    Do you now turn around and destroy me?
⁹ Remember that you molded me like a piece of clay.
    Will you now turn me back into dust?
¹⁰ You formed me inside my mother
    like cheese formed from milk.
¹¹ You dressed me with skin and flesh;
    you sewed me together with bones and muscles.
¹² You gave me life and showed me kindness,
    and in your care you watched over my life.

¹³ "But in your heart you hid other plans.
    I know this was in your mind.
¹⁴ If I sinned, you would watch me
    and would not let my sin go unpunished.
¹⁵ How terrible it will be for me if I am guilty!
    Even if I am right, I cannot lift my head.
I am full of shame
    and experience only pain.
¹⁶ If I hold up my head, you hunt me like a lion
    and again show your terrible power against me.
¹⁷ You bring new witnesses against me
    and increase your anger against me.
    Your armies come against me.

¹⁸ "So why did you allow me to be born?
    I wish I had died before anyone saw me.
¹⁹ I wish I had never lived,
    but had been carried straight from birth to the grave.
²⁰ The few days of my life are almost over.
    Leave me alone so I can have a moment of joy.
²¹ Soon I will leave; I will not return
    from the land of darkness and gloom,
²² the land of darkest night,
    from the land of gloom and confusion,
    where even the light is darkness."