1“I am tired of living.
2I will say to God, ‘Do not say that I must be punished;
3Does it seem to be good for you to oppress me,
4Do you understand things the way that we humans do?
5◄Do you live for only a few years, like we do?/You certainly do not live for only a few years, like we do.► [RHQ]
6So, why do you [RHQ] continue to search for my faults?
7You know that I am not guilty,
8“'With your hands you created me and shaped/formed my body;
9Do not forget that you made me from a piece of clay;
10You certainly [RHQ] directed/controlled it when I was conceived,
11You fastened my bones together with sinews,
12You have caused me to be alive, and you have faithfully loved me,
13“'But you ◄kept secret/did not reveal► what you were planning to do to me;
14You were watching to see if I would sin,
15If I am a wicked man, I hope/wish that terrible things will happen to me.
16And if I am proud, you hunt me like [SIM] a lion hunts for some animal to kill,
17You constantly find more witnesses to testify that I have done what is wrong,
18“'God, why did you allow me to be born?
19I consider that it would have been better if I had been carried directly from my mother’s womb to the grave
20I think that [RHQ] there are only a few days for me to remain alive;
21before I go to the place from which I will never return,
22a place of darkness and dark shadows, where everything is confused/disordered,