| New Living Translation | King James Bible |
| 1“I am disgusted with my life. Let me complain freely. My bitter soul must complain. | 1My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. |
| 2I will say to God, ‘Don’t simply condemn me— tell me the charge you are bringing against me. | 2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me. |
| 3What do you gain by oppressing me? Why do you reject me, the work of your own hands, while smiling on the schemes of the wicked? | 3Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked? |
| 4Are your eyes like those of a human? Do you see things only as people see them? | 4Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth? |
| 5Is your lifetime only as long as ours? Is your life so short | 5Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days, |
| 6that you must quickly probe for my guilt and search for my sin? | 6That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin? |
| 7Although you know I am not guilty, no one can rescue me from your hands. | 7Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand. |
| 8“‘You formed me with your hands; you made me, yet now you completely destroy me. | 8Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. |
| 9Remember that you made me from dust— will you turn me back to dust so soon? | 9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again? |
| 10You guided my conception and formed me in the womb. | 10Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? |
| 11You clothed me with skin and flesh, and you knit my bones and sinews together. | 11Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews. |
| 12You gave me life and showed me your unfailing love. My life was preserved by your care. | 12Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. |
| 13“‘Yet your real motive— your true intent— | 13And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee. |
| 14was to watch me, and if I sinned, you would not forgive my guilt. | 14If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. |
| 15If I am guilty, too bad for me; and even if I’m innocent, I can’t hold my head high, because I am filled with shame and misery. | 15If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction; |
| 16And if I hold my head high, you hunt me like a lion and display your awesome power against me. | 16For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me. |
| 17Again and again you witness against me. You pour out your growing anger on me and bring fresh armies against me. | 17Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me. |
| 18“‘Why, then, did you deliver me from my mother’s womb? Why didn’t you let me die at birth? | 18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! |
| 19It would be as though I had never existed, going directly from the womb to the grave. | 19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. |
| 20I have only a few days left, so leave me alone, that I may have a moment of comfort | 20Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, |
| 21before I leave—never to return— for the land of darkness and utter gloom. | 21Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; |
| 22It is a land as dark as midnight, a land of gloom and confusion, where even the light is dark as midnight.’” | 22A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness. |
| Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. | King James Bible, text courtesy of BibleProtector.com. |
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