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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees? |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin— |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me? |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese? |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12You have granted me life and loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Yet You concealed these things in Your heart, and I know that this was in Your mind: |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me! |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21before I go—never to return—to a land of darkness and gloom, |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.” |
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