| International Standard Version | English Standard Version |
| 1"I am disgusted with living, so I'm going to talk about my complaint freely. I'll speak out from the bitterness of my soul. | 1“I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. |
| 2I'll say to God, 'Don't condemn me! Let me know why you are fighting me. | 2I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me. |
| 3Does it delight you to oppress or despise what you have made, while you smile at the plans of the wicked? | 3Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked? |
| 4Do you have eyes made of flesh? Can you look at things as humans do? | 4Have you eyes of flesh? Do you see as man sees? |
| 5Can you live only as long as a human being? Or live the years of a mortal man? | 5Are your days as the days of man, or your years as a man’s years, |
| 6"'For you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin. | 6that you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin, |
| 7Although you know that I'm not guilty, there's no one to deliver me from you! | 7although you know that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of your hand? |
| 8Your hands formed and fashioned me, but then you have destroyed me all at once on all sides. | 8Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether. |
| 9"'Please remember that you've made me like clay and you'll return me to dust. | 9Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust? |
| 10Didn't you pour me out like milk and let me congeal like cheese? | 10Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese? |
| 11You covered me with skin and flesh, weaving me together with bones and sinews. | 11You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. |
| 12You gave life and gracious love to me; your providential care has preserved my spirit. | 12You have granted me life and steadfast love, and your care has preserved my spirit. |
| 13But you've hidden these things in your heart— I know this was your purpose: | 13Yet these things you hid in your heart; I know that this was your purpose. |
| 14If I sin, you watch me and won't acquit me for my iniquity. | 14If I sin, you watch me and do not acquit me of my iniquity. |
| 15"'Woe to me if I'm guilty! If I'm innocent, I cannot lift my head, because I am filled with disgrace. Look at my affliction! | 15If I am guilty, woe to me! If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look on my affliction. |
| 16But if I do lift up my head, you will hunt me like a lion! You will perform miracles in order to fight against me. | 16And were my head lifted up, you would hunt me like a lion and again work wonders against me. |
| 17"'You have brought new witnesses against me, you're even more angry with me— you've brought fresh troops to attack me! | 17You renew your witnesses against me and increase your vexation toward me; you bring fresh troops against me. |
| 18So why did you bring me out from the womb? I wish I had died, before anyone had seen me, | 18“Why did you bring me out from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me |
| 19as if I had never existed; carried from the womb to the grave. | 19and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave. |
| 20My days are so few, aren't they? So leave me alone, then, so I can smile a little | 20Are not my days few? Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer |
| 21before I go, never to return, leaving for the land of deep darkness and shadow. | 21before I go—and I shall not return— to the land of darkness and deep shadow, |
| 22It's a gloomy land, like deepest darkness; where there's no order, and where even the brightness is like darkness.'" | 22the land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is as thick darkness.” |
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