Verse
ASV
American Standard Version
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
My
soul
is
weary
of
my life; I will give
free
course
to
my complaint ;
I
will
speak in the bitterness of my soul.
“I
loathe
my own
life; I will express
my complaint and
speak in the bitterness of my soul.
I will say unto
God ,
Do not condemn me ;
Show
me wherefore
thou
contendest
with
me.
I will say to
God :
Do not condemn me !
Let
me know
why
You
prosecute
me.
Is
it good
unto
thee
that
thou
shouldest
oppress, That
thou
shouldest
despise
the work of thy
hands ,
And shine
upon
the counsel
of the wicked?
Does
it please
You
to
oppress me
, to
reject
the work of Your
hands and favor
the schemes
of the wicked?
Hast
thou
eyes of flesh? Or
seest
thou
as man seeth
?
Do
You
have
eyes of flesh? Do
You
see
as man sees
?
Are thy
days
as
the
days of man
, Or thy
years as
man's
days
,
Are Your
days like
those
of a
mortal
, or Your
years like
those
of
a
man
,
That thou
inquirest
after
mine
iniquity ,
And searchest
after
my sin ,
that You
should
seek
my
iniquity and search
out
my sin —
Although
thou
knowest
that I am not wicked
, And there is none
that
can
deliver
out
of
thy
hand?
though
You
know
that I am not guilty
, and there is no
deliverance
from
Your
hand?
Thy
hands have
framed
me and fashioned
me Together
round
about;
yet
thou
dost
destroy me .
Your
hands shaped
me and altogether
formed
me .
Would
You
now
turn
and
destroy me ?
Remember ,
I
beseech
thee,
that thou
hast
fashioned
me as
clay ;
And
wilt
thou
bring
me into
dust again
?
Please
remember that You
molded
me like
clay .
Would
You
now
return
me to
dust?
Hast
thou
not poured
me out as
milk, And curdled
me like cheese?
Did
You
not pour
me out like
milk, and curdle
me like cheese?
Thou
hast
clothed me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews.
You
clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
Thou
hast
granted me life and lovingkindness;
And thy
visitation
hath
preserved my spirit.
You
have
granted me life and loving
devotion,
and Your
care
has
preserved my spirit.
Yet these things thou
didst
hide
in thy
heart ;
I know that this is
with
thee
:
Yet You
concealed
these things in Your
heart ,
and
I know that this was
in
Your
mind
:
If I sin
, then
thou
markest
me
, And thou
wilt
not acquit me from
mine
iniquity.
If I sinned
, You
would
take
note
, and would
not acquit me of
my
iniquity.
If I be
wicked
, woe unto
me ;
And if I be
righteous, yet
shall
I not
lift up
my head ;
Being
filled
with
ignominy,
And looking
upon
mine
affliction.
If I am
guilty
, woe to
me !
And even
if I am
righteous, I cannot
lift my head .
I
am
full
of
shame
and aware
of
my
affliction.
And
if
`
my head '
exalt
itself
, thou
huntest
me as
a lion ;
And again thou
showest
thyself
marvellous
upon
me.
Should
I
hold
my head high
, You
would
hunt
me like
a lion ,
and again display
Your
power
against
me.
Thou
renewest
thy
witnesses against me ,
And increasest
thine
indignation
upon
me :
Changes
and
warfare
are
with
me.
You
produce
new
witnesses against me and multiply
Your
anger
toward
me .
Hardships
assault
me in
wave
after
wave
.
Wherefore
then hast
thou
brought
me forth
out
of
the womb? I had given
up
the
ghost
, and no eye had seen me .
Why
then did
You
bring
me from
the womb? Oh,
that
I had died
, and no eye had seen me !
I
should
have
been
as
though
I had not
been;
I
should
have
been carried from the womb to the grave.
If
only
I had never
come
to
be,
but
had
been carried from the womb to the grave.
Are not
my days few? cease
then,
And
let
me alone
, that I may take
comfort
a little,
Are my days not
few? Withdraw
from
me, that I may have
a little comfort
,
Before I go whence
I
shall
not
return ,
`Even'
to the
land of darkness and of
the
shadow
of
death;
before I go —never
to
return —
to a
land of darkness and gloom,
The
land dark
as
midnight
, `The
land'
of the
shadow of
death,
without
any
order,
And where the light is as
midnight
.
to
a
land of
utter
darkness
, of deep
shadow and disorder,
where even
the light is like
darkness
. ”
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