1 "I am disgusted with living, so I'm going to talk about my complaint freely. I'll speak out from the bitterness of my soul.
1 “(a)(A)I loathe my own life;I will give full vent to (B)my complaint;I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
1 “I am disgusted with my life and loathe it!I will give free expression to my complaint;I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2 I'll say to God, "Don't condemn me! Let me know why you are fighting me.
2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
2 I will say to God:“Do not declare me guilty!Let me know why You prosecute me.
2 “I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me [and declare me guilty]!Show me why You contend and argue and struggle with me.
3 Does it delight you to oppress or despise what you have made, while you smile at the plans of the wicked?
3 ‘Is it (b)right for You indeed to (D)oppress,To reject (E)the labor of Your hands,And (c)to look favorably on (F)the schemes of the wicked?
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?
3 Is it good for You to oppress,to reject the work of Your hands,and favor(a) the plans of the wicked?
3 ‘Does it indeed seem right to You to oppress,To despise and reject the work of Your hands,And to look with favor on the schemes of the wicked?
7 Although you know that I'm not guilty, there's no one to deliver me from you!
7 ‘According to Your knowledge (J)I am indeed not guilty,Yet there is (K)no deliverance from Your hand.
7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
7 even though You know that I am not wickedand that there is no one who can deliver from Your hand?
7 ‘Although You know that I am not guilty or wicked,Yet there is no one who can rescue me from Your hand.
8 Your hands formed and fashioned me, but then you have destroyed me all at once on all sides.
8 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
8 “Your hands shaped me and formed me.Will You now turn and destroy me?
8 ‘Your hands have formed and made me altogether.Would You [turn around and] destroy me?
10 Didn't you pour me out like milk and let me congeal like cheese?
10 ‘Did You not pour me out like milkAnd curdle me like cheese;
10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
10 Did You not pour me out like milkand curdle me like cheese?
10 ‘Have You not poured me out like milkAnd curdled me like cheese?
11 You covered me with skin and flesh, weaving me together with bones and sinews.
11 Clothe me with skin and flesh,And knit me together with bones and sinews?
11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
11 You clothed me with skin and flesh,and wove me together with bones and tendons.
11 ‘[You have] clothed me with skin and flesh,And knit me together with bones and sinews.
12 You gave life and gracious love to me; your providential care has preserved my spirit.
12 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
12 You gave me life and faithful love,and Your care has guarded my life.
12 ‘You have granted me life and lovingkindness;And Your providence (divine care, supervision) has preserved my spirit.
13 But you've hidden these things in your heart I know this was your purpose:
13 And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.
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].
15 ""Woe to me if I'm guilty! If I'm innocent, I cannot lift my head, because I am filled with disgrace. Look at my affliction!
15 ‘If (T)I am wicked, woe to me!And (U)if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head.I am sated with disgrace and (e)conscious of my misery.
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;
15 If I am wicked, woe to me!And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head.I am filled with shameand aware of my affliction.(F)
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 But if I do lift up my head, you will hunt me like a lion! You will perform miracles in order to fight against me.
16 ‘Should my head be lifted up, (V)You would hunt me like a lion;And again You would show Your (W)power against me.
16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
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 have brought new witnesses against me, you're even more angry with me you've brought fresh troops to attack me!
17 ‘You renew (X)Your witnesses against meAnd increase Your anger toward me;(f)(Y)Hardship after hardship is with me.
17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
17 You produce new witnesses(e) against meand multiply Your anger toward me.Hardships assault me, wave after wave.(f)
17 ‘You renew Your witnesses against meAnd increase Your indignation and anger toward me;Hardship after hardship is with me [attacking me time after time].
18 So why did you bring me out from the womb? I wish I had died, before anyone had seen 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!
18 ‘Why then did You bring me out of the womb?Would that I had perished and no eye had seen me!
19 as if I had never existed; carried from the womb to the grave.
19 ‘I should have been as though I had not been,Carried from womb to tomb.’
19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
19 ‘I should have been as though I had not existed;[I should have been] carried from the womb to the grave.’
22 It's a gloomy land, like deepest darkness; where there's no order, and where even the brightness is like darkness.'"
22 The land of utter gloom as darkness itself,Of deep shadow without order,And which shines as the darkness.”
22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
22 It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness,gloomy and chaotic,where even the light is like(i) the darkness.”
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.”
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