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¹ "I am weary of my life;
I will complain without restraint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
² I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me;
tell me why you are contending with me.'
³ Is it good for you to oppress,
to despise the work of your hands,
while you smile
on the schemes of the wicked?

⁴ "Do you have eyes of flesh,
or do you see as a human being sees?
⁵ Are your days like the days of a mortal,
or your years like the years of a mortal,
⁶ that you must search out my iniquity,
and inquire about my sin,
⁷ although you know that I am not guilty,
and that there is no one who can deliver
out of your hand?

⁸ "Your hands have shaped me and made me,
but now you destroy me completely.
⁹ Remember that you have made me as with the clay;
will you return me to 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 gave me life and favor,
and your intervention watched over my spirit.
¹³ "But these things you have concealed in your heart;
I know that this is with you:
¹⁴ If I sinned, then you would watch me
and you would not acquit me of my iniquity.
¹⁵ If I am guilty, woe to me,
and if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head;
I am full of shame,
and satiated with my affliction.
¹⁶ If I lift myself up,
you hunt me as a fierce lion,
and again you display your power against me.
¹⁷ You bring new witnesses against me,
and increase your anger against me;
relief troops come against me.

¹⁸ "Why then did you bring me out from the womb?
I should have died
and no eye would have seen me!
¹⁹ I should have been as though I had never existed;
I should have been carried
right from the womb to the grave!
²⁰ Are not my days few?
Cease, then, and leave me alone,
that I may find a little comfort,
²¹ before I depart, never to return,
to the land of darkness
and the deepest shadow,
²² to the land of utter darkness,
like the deepest darkness,
and the deepest shadow and disorder,
where even the light is like darkness."