Young's Literal Translation YLT
Holman Christian Standard Bible CSB
1 My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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I am disgusted with my life. I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2 I say unto God, `Do not condemn me, Let me know why Thou dost strive [with] me.
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I will say to God: Do not declare me guilty! Let me know why You prosecute me.
3 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?
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Is it good for You to oppress, to reject the work of Your hands, and favor the plans of the wicked?
4 Eyes of flesh hast Thou? As man seeth -- seest Thou?
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Do You have eyes of flesh, or do You see as a human sees?
5 As the days of man [are] Thy days? Thy years as the days of a man?
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Are Your days like those of a human, or Your years like those of a man,
6 That Thou inquirest for mine iniquity, And for my sin seekest?
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that You look for my wrongdoing and search for my sin,
7 For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Thy hand.
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even though You know that I am not wicked and that there is no one who can deliver from Your hand?
8 Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up!
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Your hands shaped me and formed me. Will You now turn around and destroy me?
9 Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back.
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Please remember that You formed me like clay. Will You now return me to dust?
10 Dost Thou not as milk pour me out? And as cheese curdle me?
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Did You not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?
11 Skin and flesh Thou dost put on me, And with bones and sinews dost fence me.
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You clothed me with skin and flesh, and wove me together with bones and tendons.
12 Life and kindness Thou hast done with me. And Thy inspection hath preserved my spirit.
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You gave me life and faithful love, and Your care has guarded my life.
13 And these Thou hast laid up in Thy heart, I have known that this [is] with Thee.
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Yet You concealed these [thoughts] in Your heart; I know that this was Your hidden plan:
14 If I sinned, then Thou hast observed me, And from mine iniquity dost not acquit me,
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if I sin, You would notice, and would not acquit me of my wrongdoing.
15 If I have done wickedly -- wo to me, And righteously -- I lift not up my head, Full of shame -- then see my affliction,
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If I am wicked, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head. I am filled with shame and aware of my affliction.
16 And it riseth -- as a lion Thou huntest me. And Thou turnest back -- Thou shewest Thyself wonderful in me.
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If I am proud, You hunt me like a lion and again display Your miraculous power against me.
17 Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare [are] with me.
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You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me, wave after wave.
18 And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.
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Why did You bring me out of the womb? I should have died and never been seen.
19 As I had not been, I am, From the belly to the grave I am brought,
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I wish I had never existed but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
20 Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,
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Are my days not few? Stop [it]! Leave me alone, so that I can smile a little
21 Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,
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before I go to a land of darkness and gloom, never to return.
22 A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade -- and no order, And the shining [is] as thick darkness.'
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[It is] a land of blackness like the deepest darkness, gloomy and chaotic, where even the light is like the darkness.
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