Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
“I
loathe
my own
life ;
I will
express
my complaint
and
speak in the bitterness of my soul.
My soul
hath
been
weary
of
my
life ,
I leave
off
my talking
to
myself,
I
speak in the bitterness of my soul.
I will
say to
God :
Do not condemn me !
Let me know why You
prosecute
me.
I say unto
God ,
`
Do not condemn me ,
Let me know why Thou
dost
strive
`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
for
Thee
that
Thou
dost
oppress ?
That
Thou
despisest
the labour
of Thy
hands ,
And on
the counsel
of the wicked hast
shone
?
Do
You
have
eyes of flesh? Do
You
see
as man sees
?
Eyes of flesh hast
Thou
? As man seeth
--
seest
Thou
?
Are
Your
days like
those
of a
mortal,
or
Your
years like
those
of a man ,
As
the
days of man
`are'
Thy
days?
Thy
years as
the
days
of a man ?
that You
should
seek
my
iniquity and search
out
my sin —
That Thou
inquirest
for
mine
iniquity ,
And for
my sin seekest?
though
You
know
that I am not guilty
, and there is no deliverance
from Your
hand ?
For
Thou
knowest
that I am not wicked
, And there is no deliverer
from Thy
hand .
Your
hands shaped
me and altogether
formed
me .
Would
You
now
turn
and destroy
me ?
Thy
hands have
taken
pains
about
me ,
And they
make
me together
round
about,
And Thou
swallowest
me up!
Please
remember that You
molded
me
like
clay .
Would
You
now
return
me to
dust ?
Remember ,
I
pray
Thee,
That as
clay Thou
hast
made
me ,
And
unto
dust Thou
dost
bring
me
back.
Did
You
not pour me out like
milk,
and curdle me like
cheese
?
Dost
Thou
not as
milk
pour me out ?
And as
cheese
curdle me?
You
clothed
me
with
skin and flesh, and knit
me
together
with bones and sinews.
Skin and flesh Thou
dost
put
on
me
, And with bones and sinews dost
fence
me
.
You
have
granted
me
life and loving
devotion,
and Your
care
has
preserved my spirit.
Life and kindness
Thou
hast
done
with
me.
And Thy
inspection
hath
preserved my spirit.
Yet
You
concealed
these things
in Your
heart, and
I know
that this was
in
Your
mind:
And
these Thou
hast
laid
up
in Thy
heart, I have
known
that this `is'
with
Thee.
If I sinned, You
would
take
note
, and would
not acquit me of
my
iniquity.
If I sinned, then
Thou
hast
observed
me
, And from
mine
iniquity
dost
not acquit me ,
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 have
done
wickedly
--
wo
to me, And
righteously
--
I lift not
up
my head ,
Full of shame --
then
see
my affliction ,
Should
I
hold
my
head
high,
You
would
hunt
me
like
a lion ,
and again
display
Your
power
against
me.
And
it
riseth
--
as
a lion Thou
huntest
me.
And Thou
turnest
back
--
Thou
shewest
Thyself
wonderful
in
me.
You
produce
new
witnesses against me and multiply Your
anger toward
me .
Hardships
assault
me in
wave
after
wave
.
Thou
renewest
Thy
witnesses against me ,
And dost
multiply Thine
anger with
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 !
And
why from the womb Hast
Thou
brought
me
forth
? I expire
, and the
eye doth
not
see
me .
If
only
I had never
come
to
be,
but
had
been carried
from the womb
to the grave .
As
I had not
been ,
I
am,
From the belly
to the grave I
am
brought,
Are my days not
few? Withdraw
from me, that
I may
have
a little comfort
,
Are not
my days few? Cease
then,
and
put
from me, And
I brighten
up
a little,
before I go —never
to
return —
to
a land of darkness and gloom
,
Before I go ,
and
return not,
Unto
a land of darkness and death-shade
,
to
a land of utter
darkness, of
deep
shadow
and disorder
, where
even
the light
is like
darkness. ”
A land of obscurity
as
thick
darkness, Death-shade
--
and no
order
, And
the shining
`
is '
as
thick
darkness. '
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