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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“I am disgusted with my life. Let me complain freely. My bitter soul must complain. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2I will say to God, ‘Don’t simply condemn me— tell me the charge you are bringing against me. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3What do you gain by oppressing me? Why do you reject me, the work of your own hands, while smiling on the schemes of the wicked? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Are your eyes like those of a human? Do you see things only as people see them? |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Is your lifetime only as long as ours? Is your life so short |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6that you must quickly probe for my guilt and search for my sin? |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Although you know I am not guilty, no one can rescue me from your hands. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8“‘You formed me with your hands; you made me, yet now you completely destroy me. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Remember that you made me from dust— will you turn me back to dust so soon? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10You guided my conception and formed me in the womb. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11You clothed me with skin and flesh, and you knit my bones and sinews together. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12You gave me life and showed me your unfailing love. My life was preserved by your care. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13“‘Yet your real motive— your true intent— |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14was to watch me, and if I sinned, you would not forgive my guilt. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15If I am guilty, too bad for me; and even if I’m innocent, I can’t hold my head high, because I am filled with shame and misery. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16And if I hold my head high, you hunt me like a lion and display your awesome power against me. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Again and again you witness against me. You pour out your growing anger on me and bring fresh armies against me. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18“‘Why, then, did you deliver me from my mother’s womb? Why didn’t you let me die at birth? |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19It would be as though I had never existed, going directly from the womb to the grave. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20I have only a few days left, so leave me alone, that I may have a moment of comfort |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21before I leave—never to return— for the land of darkness and utter gloom. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22It is a land as dark as midnight, a land of gloom and confusion, where even the light is dark as midnight.’” |
| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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