1 GLT My soul is weary of my life. I will abandon my complaint upon myself. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. BSB BSB: “I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2 GLT I will say to God,‘Do not condemn me, cause me to know for what you are accusing me. BSB BSB: I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
3 GLT Is it good to you that you will oppress{ me}, that you will despise the work of your hands, but on the plans of the wicked you shine? BSB BSB: Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?
4 GLT { Are} eyes of flesh to you? Or do you see according to the seeing of a man? BSB BSB: Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?
5 GLT { Are} your days like the days of a man, or{ are} your years like the days of a person, BSB BSB: Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man,
6 GLT that you seek for my iniquity and for my sin you search, BSB BSB: that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin—
7 GLT above your knowledge that I am not wicked and there is no one rescuing{ me} from your hand? BSB BSB: though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
8 GLT Your hands formed me and made me entirely round about, yet you are destroying me. BSB BSB: Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
9 GLT Remember, please, that you made me like clay, and will you turn me into dust? BSB BSB: Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
10 GLT Have you not poured me like milk and caused me to curdle like cheese? BSB BSB: Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?
11 GLT You have clothed me with skin and flesh and you have knit me together with bones and tendons. BSB BSB: You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
12 GLT You made life and covenant faithfulness alongside me, and your visitation has guarded my spirit. BSB BSB: You have granted me life and loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit.
13 GLT But in your heart you hid these things(I know that this{ was} with you): BSB BSB: Yet You concealed these things in Your heart, and I know that this was in Your mind:
14 GLT If I sinned, then you would notice me, and you would not acquit me of my iniquity. BSB BSB: If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.
15 GLT If I am wicked, woe to me! And{ if} I am righteous, I will not lift my head.{ I am} full of disgrace. Yes, see my affliction! BSB BSB: 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.
16 GLT And should it arise, you would stalk me like a lion, and you would return, you would distinguish yourself against me. BSB BSB: Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.
17 GLT You would renew your witnesses against me and you would increase your anger against me; changes and an army{ are} with me. BSB BSB: You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.
18 GLT So why did you bring me out from the womb? Would that I had expired and an eye had not seen me! BSB BSB: Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
19 GLT Would that I had been as though I had not existed! Would that I had been brought from the womb to the grave! BSB BSB: If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
20 GLT { Are} my days not few? So cease and put from me, and let me smile a little. BSB BSB: Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,
21 GLT before I go, and do not return, to the land of darkness and deep shadow, BSB BSB: before I go—never to return—to a land of darkness and gloom,
22 GLT the land of obscurity like the gloom of deep shadow and no order, and it shines like gloom.’” BSB BSB: to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
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