" 1 aI loathe my own life; I will give full vent to bmy complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2"I will say to God, ` aDo not condemn me; Let me know why You contend with me.
3`Is it 1right for You indeed to aoppress, To reject bthe labor of Your hands, And 2to look favorably on cthe schemes of the wicked?
4`Have You eyes of flesh? Or do You asee as a man sees?
5`Are Your days as the days of a mortal, Or aYour years as man's years,
6That aYou should seek for my guilt And search after my sin?
7`According to Your knowledge aI am indeed not guilty, Yet there is bno deliverance from Your hand.
8` aYour hands fashioned and made me 1altogether, bAnd would You destroy me?
9`Remember now, that You have made me as aclay; And would You bturn me into dust again?
10`Did You not pour me out like milk And curdle me like cheese;
11Clothe me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews?
12`You have agranted me life and lovingkindness; And Your care has preserved my spirit.
13`Yet athese things You have concealed in Your heart; I know that this is within You:
14If I sin, then You would atake note of me, And bwould not acquit me of my guilt.
15`If aI am wicked, woe to me! And bif I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head. I am sated with disgrace and 1conscious of my misery.
16`Should my head be lifted up, aYou would hunt me like a lion; And again You would show Your bpower against me.
17`You renew aYour witnesses against me And increase Your anger toward me; 1 bHardship after hardship is with me.
18` aWhy then have You brought me out of the womb? Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!
19`I should have been as though I had not been, Carried from womb to tomb.'
20"Would He not let amy few days alone? 1 bWithdraw from me that I may have a little cheer
21Before I go-- aand I shall not return-- bTo the land of darkness and cdeep shadow,
22The land of utter gloom as darkness itself, Of deep shadow without order, And which shines as the darkness."