| NET Bible | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1"I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. | 1I am disgusted with my life. I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul. |
| 2I will say to God, 'Do not condemn me; tell me why you are contending with me.' | 2I will say to God: "Do not declare me guilty! Let me know why You prosecute me. |
| 3Is it good for you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked? | 3Is it good for You to oppress, to reject the work of Your hands, and favor the plans of the wicked? |
| 4"Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as a human being sees? | 4Do You have eyes of flesh, or do You see as a human sees? |
| 5Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal, | 5Are Your days like those of a human, or Your years like those of a man, |
| 6that you must search out my iniquity, and inquire about my sin, | 6that You look for my wrongdoing and search for my sin, |
| 7although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand? | 7even though You know that I am not wicked and that there is no one who can deliver from Your hand? |
| 8"Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely. | 8"Your hands shaped me and formed me. Will You now turn and destroy me? |
| 9Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust? | 9Please remember that You formed me like clay. Will You now return me to dust? |
| 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 knit me together with bones and sinews. | 11You clothed me with skin and flesh, and wove me together with bones and tendons. |
| 12You gave me life and favor, and your intervention watched over my spirit. | 12You gave me life and faithful love, and Your care has guarded my life. |
| 13"But these things you have concealed in your heart; I know that this is with you: | 13"Yet You concealed these thoughts in Your heart; I know that this was Your hidden plan: |
| 14If I sinned, then you would watch me and you would not acquit me of my iniquity. | 14if I sin, You would notice, and would not acquit me of my wrongdoing. |
| 15If 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. | 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 aware of my affliction. |
| 16If I lift myself up, you hunt me as a fierce lion, and again you display your power against me. | 16If I am proud, You hunt me like a lion and again display Your miraculous power against me. |
| 17You bring new witnesses against me, and increase your anger against me; relief troops come against me. | 17You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me, wave after wave. |
| 18"Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me! | 18"Why did You bring me out of the womb? I should have died and never been seen. |
| 19I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave! | 19I wish I had never existed but had been carried from the womb to the grave. |
| 20Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort, | 20Are my days not few? Stop it! Leave me alone, so that I can smile a little |
| 21before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow, | 21before I go to a land of darkness and gloom, never to return. |
| 22to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness." | 22It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness, gloomy and chaotic, where even the light is like the darkness." |
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