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

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

"Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

"But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

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

If it isn't so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?"

They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.

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

Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to me as a crown.

"Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God's behalf.