1. “My soul is weary of my life.I will give free course to my complaint.I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2. I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me.Show me why you contend with me.
3. Is it good to you that you should oppress,that you should despise the work of your hands,and smile on the counsel of the wicked?
4. Do you have eyes of flesh?Or do you see as man sees?
5. Are your days as the days of mortals,or your years as man’s years,
6. that you enquire after my iniquity,and search after my sin?
7. Although you know that I am not wicked,there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.
8. “‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether,yet you destroy me.