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¹ "I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.² I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why thou dost contend against me.³ Does it seem good to thee to oppress, to despise the work of thy hands and favor the designs of the wicked?⁴ Hast thou eyes of flesh? Dost thou see as man sees?⁵ Are thy days as the days of man, or thy years as man's years,⁶ that thou dost seek out my iniquity and search for my sin,⁷ although thou knowest that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of thy hand?

⁸ Thy hands fashioned and made me; and now thou dost turn about and destroy me.⁹ Remember that thou hast made me of clay; and wilt thou turn me to dust again?¹⁰ Didst thou not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?¹¹ Thou didst clothe me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.¹² Thou hast granted me life and steadfast love; and thy care has preserved my spirit.¹³ Yet these things thou didst hide in thy heart; I know that this was thy purpose.

¹⁴ If I sin, thou dost mark me, and dost not acquit me of my iniquity.¹⁵ If I am wicked, woe to me! If I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look upon my affliction.¹⁶ And if I lift myself up, thou dost hunt me like a lion, and again work wonders against me;¹⁷ thou dost renew thy witnesses against me, and increase thy vexation toward me; thou dost bring fresh hosts against me.¹⁸ "Why didst thou bring me forth from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me,¹⁹ and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.²⁰ Are not the days of my life few? Let me alone, that I may find a little comfort²¹ before I go whence I shall not return, to the land of gloom and deep darkness,²² the land of gloom and chaos, where light is as darkness."