2 I will say unto God Do not condemn me shew me wherefore thou contendest with me
3 Is 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
4 Hast thou eyes of flesh or seest thou as man seeth
5 Are thy days as the days of man are thy years as man's days
6 That thou enquirest after mine iniquity and searchest after my sin
7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand
8 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about yet thou dost destroy me
9 Remember I beseech thee that thou hast made me as the clay and wilt thou bring me into dust again
10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk and curdled me like cheese
11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh and hast fenced me with bones and sinews
12 Thou hast granted me life and favour and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit
13 And these things hast thou hid in thine heart I know that this is with thee
14 If I sin then thou markest me and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity
15 If 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
16 For it increaseth Thou huntest me as a fierce lion and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me
17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me and increasest thine indignation upon me changes and war are against me
18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb Oh that I had given up the ghost and no eye had seen me
19 I should have been as though I had not been I should have been carried from the womb to the grave
20 Are not my days few cease then and let me alone that I may take comfort a little
21 Before I go whence I shall not return even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death
22 A land of darkness as darkness itself and of the shadow of death without any order and where the light is as darkness
