1 My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.
1 “(a)(A)I loathe my own life;I will give full vent to (B)my complaint;I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
1 "I am disgusted with living, so I'm going to talk about my complaint freely. I'll speak out from the bitterness of my soul.
2 I will say to God, Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against me.
2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
2 I will say to God:“Do not declare me guilty!Let me know why You prosecute me.
2 I'll say to God, "Don't condemn me! Let me know why you are fighting me.
3 What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?
3 ‘Is it (b)right for You indeed to (D)oppress,To reject (E)the labor of Your hands,And (c)to look favorably on (F)the schemes of the wicked?
3 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
3 Is it good for You to oppress,to reject the work of Your hands,and favor(a) the plans of the wicked?
3 Does it delight you to oppress or despise what you have made, while you smile at the plans of the wicked?
7 Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands?
7 ‘According to Your knowledge (J)I am indeed not guilty,Yet there is (K)no deliverance from Your hand.
7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
7 even though You know that I am not wickedand that there is no one who can deliver from Your hand?
7 Although you know that I'm not guilty, there's no one to deliver me from you!
8 Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction.
8 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
8 “Your hands shaped me and formed me.Will You now turn and destroy me?
8 Your hands formed and fashioned me, but then you have destroyed me all at once on all sides.
10 Was I not drained out like milk, becoming hard like cheese?
10 ‘Did You not pour me out like milkAnd curdle me like cheese;
10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
10 Did You not pour me out like milkand curdle me like cheese?
10 Didn't you pour me out like milk and let me congeal like cheese?
11 By you I was clothed with skin and flesh, and joined together with bones and muscles.
11 Clothe me with skin and flesh,And knit me together with bones and sinews?
11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
11 You clothed me with skin and flesh,and wove me together with bones and tendons.
11 You covered me with skin and flesh, weaving me together with bones and sinews.
12 You have been kind to me, and your grace has been with me, and your care has kept my spirit safe.
12 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
12 You gave me life and faithful love,and Your care has guarded my life.
12 You gave life and gracious love to me; your providential care has preserved my spirit.
15 That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble.
15 ‘If (T)I am wicked, woe to me!And (U)if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head.I am sated with disgrace and (e)conscious of my misery.
15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
15 If I am wicked, woe to me!And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head.I am filled with shameand aware of my affliction.(F)
15 ""Woe to me if I'm guilty! If I'm innocent, I cannot lift my head, because I am filled with disgrace. Look at my affliction!
16 And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me:
16 ‘Should my head be lifted up, (V)You would hunt me like a lion;And again You would show Your (W)power against me.
16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
16 But if I do lift up my head, you will hunt me like a lion! You will perform miracles in order to fight against me.
17 That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.
17 ‘You renew (X)Your witnesses against meAnd increase Your anger toward me;(f)(Y)Hardship after hardship is with me.
17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
17 You produce new witnesses(e) against meand multiply Your anger toward me.Hardships assault me, wave after wave.(f)
17 ""You have brought new witnesses against me, you're even more angry with me you've brought fresh troops to attack me!
18 Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,
18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
18 So why did you bring me out from the womb? I wish I had died, before anyone had seen me,
19 And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.
19 ‘I should have been as though I had not been,Carried from womb to tomb.’
19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
19 as if I had never existed; carried from the womb to the grave.
22 A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.
22 The land of utter gloom as darkness itself,Of deep shadow without order,And which shines as the darkness.”
22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
22 It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness,gloomy and chaotic,where even the light is like(i) the darkness.”
22 It's a gloomy land, like deepest darkness; where there's no order, and where even the brightness is like darkness.'"
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