8. Thine yadayim have formed me and altogether round about have fashioned me; yet Thou hast now swallowed me.
9. Remember, now, that Thou hast molded me like the chomer (clay), and wilt Thou turn me into aphar again?
10. Hast Thou not poured me out like cholov, and curdled me like gvinah (cheese)?
11. Thou hast clothed me with ohr and basar, and hast knitted me together with atzmot and sinews.
12. Thou hast granted me chayyim and chesed, and Thy visitation hath been shomer over my ruach.
13. And these things hast Thou hid in Thine lev; I have da'as that this was in Thy mind.
14. If I sin, then Thou art shomer over me, and Thou wilt not let my avon go unpunished.
15. If I am guilty, woe unto me; even if I be tzaddik (innocent), yet will I not lift up my head, being full of kalon (shame) and conscious of my oni (misery),
16. For if my head is held high, Thou stalkest me like a fierce lion, and ever Thou displayest Thy awesome power against me.
17. Thou bringest Thy fresh edim (witnesses) against me, and increasest Thine hot indignation toward me; in waves Thy tzava troop against me.
18. Why then hast Thou brought me forth out of the rechem (womb)? Oh that I had expired, and no eye had seen me!
19. I should have been as though I had never been; I should have been carried from the beten straight to the kever.
20. Are not my yamim few? Then cease, and let me alone, that I may take a little cheer