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1I am disgusted with my life. I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

1"I loathe my very life; therefore I will give free rein to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.

2I will say to God: "Do not declare me guilty! Let me know why You prosecute me.

2I say to God: Do not declare me guilty, but tell me what charges you have against me.

3Is it good for You to oppress, to reject the work of Your hands, and favor the plans of the wicked?

3Does it please you to oppress me, to spurn the work of your hands, while you smile on the plans of the wicked?

4Do You have eyes of flesh, or do You see as a human sees?

4Do you have eyes of flesh? Do you see as a mortal sees?

5Are Your days like those of a human, or Your years like those of a man,

5Are your days like those of a mortal or your years like those of a strong man,

6that You look for my wrongdoing and search for my sin,

6that you must search out my faults and probe after my sin--

7even though You know that I am not wicked and that there is no one who can deliver from Your hand?

7though you know that I am not guilty and that no one can rescue me from your hand?

8"Your hands shaped me and formed me. Will You now turn and destroy me?

8"Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me?

9Please remember that You formed me like clay. Will You now return me to dust?

9Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again?

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 wove me together with bones and tendons.

11clothe me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews?

12You gave me life and faithful love, and Your care has guarded my life.

12You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit.

13"Yet You concealed these thoughts in Your heart; I know that this was Your hidden plan:

13"But this is what you concealed in your heart, and I know that this was in your mind:

14if I sin, You would notice, and would not acquit me of my wrongdoing.

14If I sinned, you would be watching me and would not let my offense go unpunished.

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.

15If I am guilty--woe to me! Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head, for I am full of shame and drowned in my affliction.

16If I am proud, You hunt me like a lion and again display Your miraculous power against me.

16If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lion and again display your awesome power against me.

17You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me, wave after wave.

17You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger toward me; your forces come against me wave upon wave.

18"Why did You bring me out of the womb? I should have died and never been seen.

18"Why then did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died before any eye saw me.

19I wish I had never existed but had been carried from the womb to the grave.

19If only I had never come into being, or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!

20Are my days not few? Stop it! Leave me alone, so that I can smile a little

20Are not my few days almost over? Turn away from me so I can have a moment's joy

21before I go to a land of darkness and gloom, never to return.

21before I go to the place of no return, to the land of gloom and utter darkness,

22It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness, gloomy and chaotic, where even the light is like the darkness."

22to the land of deepest night, of utter darkness and disorder, where even the light is like darkness."

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