1My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.⇆ compare2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; show me wherefore thou contendest with me.⇆ compare3Is 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?⇆ compare4Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?⇆ compare5Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,⇆ compare6That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?⇆ compare7Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.⇆ compare8Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.⇆ compare9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?⇆ compare10Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?⇆ compare11Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.⇆ compare12Thou hast granted me life and favor, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.⇆ compare13And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.⇆ compare14If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.⇆ compare15If 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;⇆ compare16For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou showest thyself marvelous upon me.⇆ compare17Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.⇆ compare18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!⇆ compare19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.⇆ compare20Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,⇆ compare21Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;⇆ compare22A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.⇆ compare