1<\/sup>My soul is weary of my life. I will release my words against myself. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>I will say to God: Do not be willing to condemn me. Reveal to me why you judge me this way.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>Does it seem good to you, if you find fault with me and oppress me, the work of your own hands, and assist the counsel of the impious?<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>Do you have bodily eyes? Or, just as man sees, will you see?<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>Are your days just like the days of man, and are your years as the times of humans,<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>so that you would inquire about my iniquity and examine my sin?<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>And you know that I have done nothing impious, yet there is no one who can deliver from your hand.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>Your hands have made me and formed me all around, and, in this way, do you suddenly throw me away?<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>Remember, I ask you, that you have fashioned me like clay, and you will reduce me to dust.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>Have you not extracted me like milk and curdled me like cheese?<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>You have clothed me with skin and flesh. You have put me together with bones and nerves.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>You have assigned to me life and mercy, and your visitation has preserved my spirit.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>Though you may conceal this in your heart, yet I know that you remember everything.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>If I have sinned, and you have spared me for an hour, why do you not endure me to be clean from my iniquity?<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>And if I should be impious, woe to me, and if I should be just, I will not lift up my head, being drenched with affliction and misery.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>And because of pride, you will seize me like a lioness, and having returned, you torment me to an extraordinary degree.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>You renew your testimony against me, and you multiply your wrath against me, and these punishments make war within me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>Why did you lead me out of the womb? If only I had been consumed, so that no eye would ever see me!<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>I should have been as if I had not been: transferred from the womb to the tomb.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>Will not my few days be completed soon? Release me, therefore, so that I may lament my sorrows a little,<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>before I depart and return no more to a land that is dark and covered with the fog of death,<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>a land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and nothing else but everlasting horror, dwells.<\/span> <\/p>\n