Christian Standard Bible | New International Version |
1I am disgusted with my life. I will give vent to my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul. | 1"I loathe my very life; therefore I will give free rein to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul. |
2I will say to God, "Do not declare me guilty! Let me know why you prosecute me. | 2I say to God: Do not declare me guilty, but tell me what charges you have against me. |
3Is it good for you to oppress, to reject the work of your hands, and favor the plans of the wicked? | 3Does it please you to oppress me, to spurn the work of your hands, while you smile on the plans of the wicked? |
4Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as a human sees? | 4Do you have eyes of flesh? Do you see as a mortal sees? |
5Are your days like those of a human, or your years like those of a man, | 5Are your days like those of a mortal or your years like those of a strong man, |
6that you look for my iniquity and search for my sin, | 6that you must search out my faults and probe after my sin-- |
7even though you know that I am not wicked and that there is no one who can rescue from your power? | 7though you know that I am not guilty and that no one can rescue me from your hand? |
8"Your hands shaped me and formed me. Will you now turn and destroy me? | 8"Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me? |
9Please remember that you formed me like clay. Will you now return me to dust? | 9Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again? |
10Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese? | 10Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese, |
11You clothed me with skin and flesh, and wove me together with bones and tendons. | 11clothe me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews? |
12You gave me life and faithful love, and your care has guarded my life. | 12You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit. |
13"Yet you concealed these thoughts in your heart; I know that this was your hidden plan: | 13"But this is what you concealed in your heart, and I know that this was in your mind: |
14if I sin, you would notice, and would not acquit me of my iniquity. | 14If I sinned, you would be watching me and would not let my offense go unpunished. |
15If I am wicked, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head. I am filled with shame and have drunk deeply of my affliction. | 15If I am guilty--woe to me! Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head, for I am full of shame and drowned in my affliction. |
16If I am proud, you hunt me like a lion and again display your miraculous power against me. | 16If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lion and again display your awesome power against me. |
17You produce new witnesses against me and multiply your anger toward me. Hardships assault me, wave after wave. | 17You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger toward me; your forces come against me wave upon wave. |
18"Why did you bring me out of the womb? I should have died and never been seen. | 18"Why then did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died before any eye saw me. |
19I wish I had never existed but had been carried from the womb to the grave. | 19If only I had never come into being, or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave! |
20Are my days not few? Stop it! Leave me alone, so that I can smile a little | 20Are not my few days almost over? Turn away from me so I can have a moment's joy |
21before I go to a land of darkness and gloom, never to return. | 21before I go to the place of no return, to the land of gloom and utter darkness, |
22It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness, gloomy and chaotic, where even the light is like the darkness." | 22to the land of deepest night, of utter darkness and disorder, where even the light is like darkness." |
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