| English Standard Version | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1“I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. | 1"I loathe my own life; I will give full vent to my complaint; 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. | 2"I will say to God, 'Do not condemn me; Let me know why You contend with me. |
| 3Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked? | 3'Is it right for You indeed to oppress, To reject the labor of Your hands, And to look favorably on the schemes of the wicked? |
| 4Have you eyes of flesh? Do you see as man sees? | 4'Have You eyes of flesh? Or do You see as a man sees? |
| 5Are your days as the days of man, or your years as a man’s years, | 5'Are Your days as the days of a mortal, Or Your years as man's years, |
| 6that you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin, | 6That You should seek for my guilt And search after my sin? |
| 7although you know that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of your hand? | 7'According to Your knowledge I am indeed not guilty, Yet there is no deliverance from Your hand. |
| 8Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether. | 8'Your hands fashioned and made me altogether, And would You destroy me? |
| 9Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust? | 9'Remember now, that You have made me as clay; And would You turn me into dust again? |
| 10Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese? | 10'Did 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. | 11Clothe me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews? |
| 12You have granted me life and steadfast love, and your care has preserved my spirit. | 12'You have granted me life and lovingkindness; And Your care has preserved my spirit. |
| 13Yet these things you hid in your heart; I know that this was your purpose. | 13'Yet these things You have concealed in Your heart; I know that this is within You: |
| 14If I sin, you watch me and do not acquit me of my iniquity. | 14If I sin, then You would take note of me, And would not acquit me of my guilt. |
| 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 am wicked, woe to me! And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head. I am sated with disgrace and conscious of my misery. |
| 16And were my head lifted up, you would hunt me like a lion and again work wonders against me. | 16Should my head be lifted up, You would hunt me like a lion; And again You would show Your power against me. |
| 17You renew your witnesses against me and increase your vexation toward me; you bring fresh troops against me. | 17'You renew Your witnesses against me And increase Your anger toward me; Hardship after hardship is with me. |
| 18“Why did you bring me out from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me | 18'Why then have You brought me out of the womb? Would that I had died and no eye had seen me! |
| 19and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave. | 19'I should have been as though I had not been, Carried from womb to tomb.' |
| 20Are not my days few? Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer | 20"Would He not let my few days alone? Withdraw from me that I may have a little cheer |
| 21before I go—and I shall not return— to the land of darkness and deep shadow, | 21Before I go-- and I shall not return-- To the land of darkness and deep shadow, |
| 22the land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is as thick darkness.” | 22The land of utter gloom as darkness itself, Of deep shadow without order, And which shines as the darkness." |
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