2. I will say to God, ‘Don’t simply condemn me—tell me the charge you are bringing against me.
3. What do you gain by oppressing me?Why do you reject me, the work of your own hands,while smiling on the schemes of the wicked?
4. Are your eyes like those of a human?Do you see things only as people see them?
5. Is your lifetime only as long as ours?Is your life so short
6. that you must quickly probe for my guiltand search for my sin?
7. Although you know I am not guilty,no one can rescue me from your hands.
8. “‘You formed me with your hands; you made me,yet now you completely destroy me.
9. Remember that you made me from dust—will you turn me back to dust so soon?
10. You guided my conceptionand formed me in the womb.
11. You clothed me with skin and flesh,and you knit my bones and sinews together.
12. You gave me life and showed me your unfailing love.My life was preserved by your care.
13. “‘Yet your real motive—your true intent—
14. was to watch me, and if I sinned,you would not forgive my guilt.
15. If I am guilty, too bad for me;and even if I’m innocent, I can’t hold my head high,because I am filled with shame and misery.
16. And if I hold my head high, you hunt me like a lionand display your awesome power against me.