If I have sinned, what do I do to thee, O thou watcher of men? Why have thou set me as a mark for thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou have fashioned me as clay. And will thou bring me into dust again?

And if [my head] exalts itself, thou hunt me as a lion. And again thou show thyself marvelous upon me.

O that thou would hide me in Sheol, that thou would keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou would appoint for me a set time, and remember me!

But he has made me a byword of the people, and they spit in my face.

Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?

And they waited for me as for the rain. And they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain.

(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and her I have guided from my mother's womb);

Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder. I would bind it to me as a crown.

Allow me a little, and I will show thee. For I have yet somewhat to say on God's behalf.