| New King James Version | International Standard Version |
| 1“My soul loathes my life; I will give free course to my complaint, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. | 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. |
| 2I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me; Show me why You contend with me. | 2I'll say to God, 'Don't condemn me! Let me know why you are fighting me. |
| 3Does it seem good to You that You should oppress, That You should despise the work of Your hands, And smile on the counsel of the wicked? | 3Does it delight you to oppress or despise what you have made, while you smile at the plans of the wicked? |
| 4Do You have eyes of flesh? Or do You see as man sees? | 4Do you have eyes made of flesh? Can you look at things as humans do? |
| 5Are Your days like the days of a mortal man? Are Your years like the days of a mighty man, | 5Can you live only as long as a human being? Or live the years of a mortal man? |
| 6That You should seek for my iniquity And search out my sin, | 6"'For you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin. |
| 7Although You know that I am not wicked, And there is no one who can deliver from Your hand? | 7Although you know that I'm not guilty, there's no one to deliver me from you! |
| 8‘Your hands have made me and fashioned me, An intricate unity; Yet You would destroy me. | 8Your hands formed and fashioned me, but then you have destroyed me all at once on all sides. |
| 9Remember, I pray, that You have made me like clay. And will You turn me into dust again? | 9"'Please remember that you've made me like clay and you'll return me to dust. |
| 10Did You not pour me out like milk, And curdle me like cheese, | 10Didn't you pour me out like milk and let me congeal like cheese? |
| 11Clothe me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews? | 11You covered me with skin and flesh, weaving me together with bones and sinews. |
| 12You have granted me life and favor, And Your care has preserved my spirit. | 12You gave life and gracious love to me; your providential care has preserved my spirit. |
| 13‘And these things You have hidden in Your heart; I know that this was with You: | 13But you've hidden these things in your heart— I know this was your purpose: |
| 14If I sin, then You mark me, And will not acquit me of my iniquity. | 14If I sin, you watch me and won't acquit me for my iniquity. |
| 15If I am wicked, woe to me; Even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head. I am full of disgrace; See my misery! | 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! |
| 16If my head is exalted, You hunt me like a fierce lion, And again You show Yourself awesome against me. | 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. |
| 17You renew Your witnesses against me, And increase Your indignation toward me; Changes and war are ever with me. | 17"'You have brought new witnesses against me, you're even more angry with me— you've brought fresh troops to attack me! |
| 18‘Why then have You brought me out of the womb? Oh, that I had perished and no eye had seen me! | 18So why did you bring me out from the womb? I wish I had died, before anyone had seen me, |
| 19I would have been as though I had not been. I would have been carried from the womb to the grave. | 19as if I had never existed; carried from the womb to the grave. |
| 20Are not my days few? Cease! Leave me alone, that I may take a little comfort, | 20My days are so few, aren't they? So leave me alone, then, so I can smile a little |
| 21Before I go to the place from which I shall not return, To the land of darkness and the shadow of death, | 21before I go, never to return, leaving for the land of deep darkness and shadow. |
| 22A land as dark as darkness itself, As the shadow of death, without any order, Where even the light is like darkness.’ ” | 22It's a gloomy land, like deepest darkness; where there's no order, and where even the brightness is like darkness.'" |
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