⁸ 
‘Your hands have formed and made me altogether.
Would You [turn around and] destroy me?
⁹ 
‘Remember now, that You have made me as clay;
So will You turn me into dust again?
¹⁰ 
‘Have You not poured me out like milk
And curdled me like cheese?
¹¹ 
‘[You have] clothed me with skin and flesh,
And knit me together with bones and sinews.
¹² 
‘You have granted me life and lovingkindness;
And Your providence (divine care, supervision) has preserved my spirit.
¹³ 
‘Yet these [present evils] You have hidden in Your heart [since my creation]:
I know that this was within You [in Your purpose and thought].
¹⁴ 
‘If I sin, then You would take note and observe me,
And You would not acquit me of my guilt.
¹⁵ 
‘If I am wicked, woe to me [for judgment comes]!
And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head.
For I am sated and filled with disgrace and the sight of my misery.
¹⁶ 
‘Should I lift my head up, You would hunt me like a lion;
And again You would show Your marvelous power against me.
¹⁷ 
‘You renew Your witnesses against me
And increase Your indignation and anger toward me;
Hardship after hardship is with me [attacking me time after time].

¹⁸ 
‘Why then did You bring me out of the womb?
Would that I had perished and no eye had seen me!
¹⁹ 
‘I should have been as though I had not existed;
[I should have been] carried from the womb to the grave.’
²⁰ 
“Would He not let my few days alone,
Withdraw from me that I may have a little cheer
²¹ 
Before I go—and I shall not return—
To the land of darkness and the deep shadow [of death],
²² 
The [sunless] land of utter gloom as darkness itself,
[The land] of the shadow of death, without order,
And [where] it shines as [thick] darkness.”