1 “I hate my life.
2 I will say to God,
3 What do you gain by mistreating me,
4 Do you actually have human eyes?
5 Are your days like a mortal’s days?
6 Is that why you look for guilt in me
7 You know I’m not guilty,
8 “ ‘Your hands formed me and made every part of me,
9 Please remember that you made me out of clay
10 Didn’t you pour me out like milk
11 Didn’t you dress me in skin and flesh
12 You gave me life and mercy.
13 But in your heart you hid these things.
14 “ ‘If I sin, you watch me
15 How terrible it will be for me if I’m guilty!
16 Like a proud, ferocious lion you hunt me down.
17 You keep finding new witnesses against me.
18 “ ‘Why did you take me out of the womb?
19 Then it would be as if I had never existed,
20 “ ‘Isn’t my life short enough?
21 before I go away
22 to a dismal land of long shadows and confusion