| English Standard Version | King James Bible |
| 1“I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. | 1My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. |
| 2I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me. | 2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me. |
| 3Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked? | 3Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked? |
| 4Have you eyes of flesh? Do you see as man sees? | 4Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth? |
| 5Are your days as the days of man, or your years as a man’s years, | 5Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days, |
| 6that you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin, | 6That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin? |
| 7although you know that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of your hand? | 7Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand. |
| 8Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether. | 8Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. |
| 9Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust? | 9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again? |
| 10Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese? | 10Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? |
| 11You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. | 11Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews. |
| 12You have granted me life and steadfast love, and your care has preserved my spirit. | 12Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. |
| 13Yet these things you hid in your heart; I know that this was your purpose. | 13And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee. |
| 14If I sin, you watch me and do not acquit me of my iniquity. | 14If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. |
| 15If I am guilty, woe to me! If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look on my affliction. | 15If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction; |
| 16And were my head lifted up, you would hunt me like a lion and again work wonders against me. | 16For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me. |
| 17You renew your witnesses against me and increase your vexation toward me; you bring fresh troops against me. | 17Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me. |
| 18“Why did you bring me out from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me | 18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! |
| 19and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave. | 19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. |
| 20Are not my days few? Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer | 20Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, |
| 21before I go—and I shall not return— to the land of darkness and deep shadow, | 21Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; |
| 22the land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is as thick darkness.” | 22A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness. |
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