New Living Translation | International Standard Version |
1“I am disgusted with my life. Let me complain freely. My bitter soul must complain. | 1"I am disgusted with living, so I'm going to talk about my complaint freely. I'll speak out from the bitterness of my soul. |
2I will say to God, ‘Don’t simply condemn me— tell me the charge you are bringing against me. | 2I'll say to God, 'Don't condemn me! Let me know why you are fighting me. |
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? | 3Does it delight you to oppress or despise what you have made, while you smile at the plans of the wicked? |
4Are your eyes like those of a human? Do you see things only as people see them? | 4Do you have eyes made of flesh? Can you look at things as humans do? |
5Is your lifetime only as long as ours? Is your life so short | 5Can you live only as long as a human being? Or live the years of a mortal man? |
6that you must quickly probe for my guilt and search for my sin? | 6"'For you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin. |
7Although you know I am not guilty, no one can rescue me from your hands. | 7Although you know that I'm not guilty, there's no one to deliver me from you! |
8“‘You formed me with your hands; you made me, yet now you completely destroy me. | 8Your hands formed and fashioned me, but then you have destroyed me all at once on all sides. |
9Remember that you made me from dust— will you turn me back to dust so soon? | 9"'Please remember that you've made me like clay and you'll return me to dust. |
10You guided my conception and formed me in the womb. | 10Didn't you pour me out like milk and let me congeal like cheese? |
11You clothed me with skin and flesh, and you knit my bones and sinews together. | 11You covered me with skin and flesh, weaving me together with bones and sinews. |
12You gave me life and showed me your unfailing love. My life was preserved by your care. | 12You gave life and gracious love to me; your providential care has preserved my spirit. |
13“‘Yet your real motive— your true intent— | 13But you've hidden these things in your heart— I know this was your purpose: |
14was to watch me, and if I sinned, you would not forgive my guilt. | 14If I sin, you watch me and won't acquit me for my iniquity. |
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. | 15"'Woe to me if I'm guilty! If I'm innocent, I cannot lift my head, because I am filled with disgrace. Look at my affliction! |
16And if I hold my head high, you hunt me like a lion and display your awesome power against me. | 16But if I do lift up my head, you will hunt me like a lion! You will perform miracles in order to fight against me. |
17Again and again you witness against me. You pour out your growing anger on me and bring fresh armies against me. | 17"'You have brought new witnesses against me, you're even more angry with me— you've brought fresh troops to attack me! |
18“‘Why, then, did you deliver me from my mother’s womb? Why didn’t you let me die at birth? | 18So why did you bring me out from the womb? I wish I had died, before anyone had seen me, |
19It would be as though I had never existed, going directly from the womb to the grave. | 19as if I had never existed; carried from the womb to the grave. |
20I have only a few days left, so leave me alone, that I may have a moment of comfort | 20My days are so few, aren't they? So leave me alone, then, so I can smile a little |
21before I leave—never to return— for the land of darkness and utter gloom. | 21before I go, never to return, leaving for the land of deep darkness and shadow. |
22It is a land as dark as midnight, a land of gloom and confusion, where even the light is dark as midnight.’” | 22It's a gloomy land, like deepest darkness; where there's no order, and where even the brightness is like darkness.'" |
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