1“My soul is weary of my life. I…
2I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me.…
3Is it good to you that you should…
4Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do…
5Are your days as the days of mortals,…
6that you inquire after my iniquity, and search…
7Although you know that I am not wicked,…
8“‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me…
9Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned…
10Haven’t you poured me out like milk, and…
11You have clothed me with skin and flesh,…
12You have granted me life and loving kindness.…
13Yet you hid these things in your heart.…
14if I sin, then you mark me. You…
15If I am wicked, woe to me. If…
16If my head is held high, you hunt…
17You renew your witnesses against me, and increase…
18“‘Why, then, have you brought me out of…
19I should have been as though I had…
20Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone,…
21before I go where I will not return…
22the land dark as midnight, of the shadow…
