1My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2I will say to God, Do not condemn me; Show me why you contend with me.
3Is it good to you that you should oppress, That you should despise the work of your hands, And shine on the counsel of the wicked?
4Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?
5Are your days as the days of man, Or your years as man’s days,
6That you inquire after my iniquity, And search after my sin,
7Although you know that I am not wicked, And there is none who can deliver out of your hand?
8Your hands have framed me and fashioned me Together round about; yet you destroy me.
9Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay; And will you bring me into dust again?
10Have you not poured me out as milk, And curdled me like cheese?
11You have clothed me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews.
12You have granted me life and lovingkindness; And your visitation has preserved my spirit.
13Yet these things you hid in your heart; I know that this is with you:
14If I sin, then you mark me, And you will not acquit me from my iniquity.
15If I am wicked, woe to me; And if I am righteous, yet I shall not lift up my head; Being filled with ignominy, And looking on my affliction.
16And if my head exalts itself, you hunt me as a lion; And again you show yourself marvelous against me.
17You renew your witnesses against me, And increase your indignation against me: Changes and warfare are with me.
18Why then have you brought me out of the womb? I would have given up the ghost, and no eye would have seen me.
19I would have been as though I had not been; I would have been carried from the womb to the grave.
20Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
21Before I go to the place from which I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
22The land dark as midnight, The land of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.