10 I am disgusted with my life.^(A)
I will give vent to my complaint
and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
² I will say to God,
“Do not declare me guilty!
Let me know why you prosecute me.
³ Is it good for you to oppress,
to reject the work of your hands,^(B)
and favor^[a] the plans of the wicked?^(C)
4 Do you have eyes of flesh,
or do you see as a human sees?
⁵ Are your days like those of a human,
or your years like those of a man,^(D)
6 that you look for my iniquity^(E)
and search for my sin,
⁷ even though you know that I am not wicked
and that there is no one who can rescue from your power?^(F)

⁸ “Your hands shaped me and formed me.^(G)
Will you now turn and destroy me?
⁹ Please remember that you formed me like clay.
Will you now return me to dust?^(H)
10 Did you not pour me out like milk
and curdle me like cheese?
¹¹ You clothed me with skin and flesh,
and wove me together with bones and tendons.^(I)
12 You gave me life and faithful love,
and your care has guarded my life.

¹³ “Yet you concealed these thoughts in your heart;
I know that this was your hidden plan:^[b]
14 if I sin, you would notice,^[c]
and would not acquit me of my iniquity.^(J)
15 If I am wicked, woe to me!
And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head.
I am filled with shame^(K)
and have drunk deeply of^[d] my affliction.^(L)
16 If I am proud,^[e] you hunt me like a lion
and again display your miraculous power against me.^(M)
17 You produce new witnesses^[f] against me
and multiply your anger toward me.
Hardships assault me, wave after wave.^[g]

¹⁸ “Why did you bring me out of the womb?^(N)
I should have died and never been seen.
¹⁹ I wish^[h] I had never existed
but had been carried from the womb to the grave.^(O)
20 Are my days not few? Stop it!^[i]
Leave me alone, so that I can smile a little
²¹ before I go to a land of darkness and gloom,^(P)
never to return.
²² It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness,
gloomy and chaotic,
where even the light is like^[j] the darkness.”