Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
WEB
World English Bible
“I
loathe
my own
life; I will express
my complaint and
speak in the bitterness of my soul.
"
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 will say
to
God :
Do not condemn me !
Let
me know
why You prosecute
me.
I will tell
God ,
'
Do not condemn me ,
Show
me why you contend
with
me.
Does
it please
You
to oppress me
, to
reject
the work of Your hands and favor
the schemes
of the wicked?
Is
it good
to you
that
you
should
oppress, That
you
should
despise
the work of your hands ,
And smile
on
the counsel
of the wicked?
Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?
Do you have eyes of flesh? Or
do you see as man sees?
Are Your days like
those
of a
mortal
, or Your years like
those
of
a
man
,
Are your days as
the
days
of mortals
, Or your years as
man's
years
,
that You should
seek
my iniquity and search out
my sin —
That you inquire
after
my iniquity ,
And search after
my sin ?
though
You know that I am not guilty
, and
there is no deliverance
from
Your hand ?
Although
you know that I am not wicked
, There is no one
who
can
deliver
out
of
your hand .
Your hands shaped
me and altogether
formed
me .
Would
You now
turn
and
destroy me ?
'
Your hands have
framed
me and fashioned
me altogether;
Yet
you destroy me .
Please
remember that You molded
me like
clay. Would
You now
return
me to
dust?
Remember ,
I
beg
you,
that you have
fashioned
me as
clay. Will
you bring
me into
dust again
?
Did
You not
pour
me out like milk, and curdle
me like cheese?
Haven't
you poured
me out like milk, And curdled
me like cheese?
You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
You have
clothed me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews.
You have granted me life and loving devotion,
and
Your care
has preserved my spirit.
You have granted me life and loving kindness.
Your visitation
has preserved my spirit.
Yet You concealed
these things in Your heart ,
and
I know that this was
in
Your
mind
:
Yet you hid
these things in your heart .
I know that this is
with
you
:
If I sinned
, You would
take
note,
and
would
not acquit me of
my iniquity.
If I sin
, then
you mark
me.
You
will
not acquit me from
my iniquity.
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.
If I am wicked
, woe to me .
If I am righteous, I still
shall
not
lift up
my head ,
Being
filled
with
disgrace,
And conscious
of my affliction.
Should
I
hold
my head high, You would
hunt me like a lion ,
and
again display
Your
power
against
me.
If
my head is
held
high, you hunt me like a lion .
Again you
show
yourself
powerful
to
me.
You produce
new
witnesses against me and multiply
Your anger
toward
me. Hardships
assault
me in
wave
after
wave
.
You renew
your
witnesses against me ,
And increase
your indignation
on
me. Changes
and
warfare
are
with
me.
Why then did
You bring
me from
the womb? Oh,
that
I had died
, and no eye had seen me !
"'
Why ,
then ,
have
you brought
me forth
out
of
the womb? I wish
I
had given
up
the
spirit
, and no eye had seen me .
If
only
I had
never
come
to
be,
but
had been carried from the womb to the grave.
I should
have
been
as
though
I
had not
been .
I
should
have
been
carried from the womb to the grave.
Are
my days not
few? Withdraw
from
me, that I may have
a little comfort,
Aren't
my days few? Cease
then,
Leave
me alone
, that I may find
a little comfort,
before I go —never
to
return —
to a
land of darkness and gloom,
Before I go where
I
shall
not
return from,
To the
land of darkness and of
the
shadow
of
death;
to
a
land of
utter
darkness
, of deep
shadow and
disorder
, where even
the light is like
darkness
. ”
The
land dark
as
midnight
, Of the
shadow of
death
, without
any
order,
Where the light is as
midnight
. '"
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