1. “My being has grown weary of life. I let loose my complaint, I speak in the bitterness of my being.
2. I say to Eloah, ‘Do not declare me wrong, show me why You strive with me.
3. Is it good to You that You should crush, that You should despise the work of Your hands, and shine on the counsel of the wrong?
4. Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?
5. Are Your days like the days of a mortal man? Are Your years like the days of a mighty man,
6. that You should seek for my crookedness and search out my sin?
7. For You know that I am not wrong, and there is no one to deliver from Your hand.
8. Your hands have made me and shaped me, together all around, yet You destroy me.
9. Remember, please, that You have made me like clay. And would You turn me into dust again?