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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2I will say to God, 'Do not condemn me; tell me why you are contending with me.' |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Is it good for you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked? |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as a human being sees? |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal, |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6that you must search out my iniquity, and inquire about my sin, |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand? |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you 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 gave me life and favor, and your intervention watched over my spirit. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"But these things you have concealed in your heart; I know that this is with you: |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14If I sinned, then you would watch me and you would not acquit me of my iniquity. |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16If I lift myself up, you hunt me as a fierce lion, and again you display your power against me. |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17You bring new witnesses against me, and increase your anger against me; relief troops come against me. |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me! |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave! |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort, |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow, |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness." |
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