1. I AM weary of my life and loathe it! I will give free expression to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2. I will say to God, Do not condemn me [do not make me guilty]! Show me why You contend with me.
3. Does it seem good to You that You should oppress, that You should despise and reject the work of Your hands, and favor the schemes of the wicked?
4. Have You eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?
5. Are Your days as the days of man, are Your years as man's [years],
6. That You inquire after my iniquity and search for my sin–
7. Although You know that I am not wicked or guilty and that there is none who can deliver me out of Your hand?
8. Your hands have formed me and made me. Would You turn around and destroy me?
9. Remember [earnestly], I beseech You, that You have fashioned me as clay [out of the same earth material, exquisitely and elaborately]. And will You bring me into dust again?
10. Have You not poured me out like milk and curdled me like cheese?
11. You have clothed me with skin and flesh and have knit me together with bones and sinews.