9. Remember You fashioned me like clay; will You return me to dust?
10. Did You not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese,
11. clothe me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews?
12. You gave me life and steadfast love, and Your care has preserved my spirit.
13. “Yet these things You have hid in Your heart, for I know that this is with You.
14. If I sinned, You would watch me, and not acquit me of my iniquity.
15. If I am guilty, woe to me! Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and conscious of my affliction.
16. If my head is held high, You hunt me like a lion, and again work wonders against me.
17. You renew Your witnesses against me, and increase Your anger toward me, change and warfare are with me.
18. “Why then did You bring me out from the womb? I should have died so no eye would have seen me.
19. If only I had never come into being, or been carried from womb to grave.
20. Are not my days few? Then stop, leave me alone so I might have a little joy,
21. before I depart, and never return, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,
22. the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”