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📚✭“My soul is weary of my life. I will give full rein to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. 2 📚✭I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
3 📚✭Is it good for you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands, and shine on the counsel of the wicked?
4 📚✭Have you eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?
5 📚Are your days like the days of man? Are your years like man’s days,
6 📚That you inquire about my iniquity, and search for my sin?
7 📚You know that I am not wicked; and there is no one who can rescue from your hand.
8 📚“Your hands have made me and formed me altogether; yet you destroy me.
9 📚Remember, I beg you, that you have made me like clay; and will you bring me into dust again?
10 📚Have you not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?
11 📚You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
12 📚✭You have granted me life and favour, and your care has preserved my spirit.
13 📚And these things you have hidden in your heart. I know that this is with you:
14 📚If I sin, then you take note of me, and you will not acquit me from my iniquity.
15 📚If I am wicked, woe to me! And if I am righteous, I will still not lift up my head. I am full of shame. Therefore see my affliction,
16 📚For it is increasing. You hunt me like a fierce lion, and again show your marvellous power against me.
17 📚You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation toward me. Changes and miserable struggle are my lot.
18 📚“Why then did you bring me out of the womb? Oh, that I had expired, and no eye had seen me!
19 📚I would have been as though I had not been. I would have been carried from the womb to the grave.
20 📚Are not my days few? Cease then, and leave me alone, that I may have a little comfort,
21 📚✭Before I go to the place from which I will not return, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,
22 📚A land of darkness, like darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where even the light is like darkness.’ ”