9. Remember that you have made me like clay;and will you return me to the dust?
10. Did you not pour me out like milkand curdle me like cheese?
11. You clothed me with skin and flesh,and knit me together with bones and sinews.
12. You have granted me life and steadfast love,and your care has preserved my spirit.
13. Yet these things you hid in your heart;I know that this was your purpose.
14. If I sin, you watch meand do not acquit me of my iniquity.
15. If I am guilty, woe to me!If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head,for I am filled with disgraceand look on my affliction.
16. And were my head lifted up, you would hunt me like a lionand again work wonders against me.
17. You renew your witnesses against meand increase your vexation toward me;you bring fresh troops against me.
18. “Why did you bring me out from the womb?Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
19. and were as though I had not been,carried from the womb to the grave.
20. Are not my days few? Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer
21. before I go—and I shall not return—to the land of darkness and deep shadow,
22. the land of gloom like thick darkness,like deep shadow without any order,where light is as thick darkness.”