Verse
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
KJV
King James Version
My soul hath
been
weary of my life ,
I leave off
my talking
to
myself ,
I speak in the bitterness of my soul.
My soul is
weary of my life ;
I will
leave my complaint
upon
myself ;
I will
speak in the bitterness of my soul.
I say unto God, `
Do not condemn me ,
Let
me know
why
Thou dost
strive
`
with '
me.
I will
say unto God, Do not condemn me ;
shew
me wherefore
thou contendest
with me.
Is it good for
Thee that Thou dost
oppress ?
That Thou despisest
the labour
of Thy
hands, And on
the counsel of the wicked hast
shone
?
Is 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?
Eyes of flesh hast
Thou
? As man seeth --
seest
Thou
?
Hast
thou
eyes of flesh? or
seest
thou
as man seeth?
As the days of man `are'
Thy
days
? Thy years as the
days of
a
man?
Are
thy
days
as the days of man? are
thy years as man's
days ,
That Thou inquirest
for
mine iniquity, And for
my sin seekest
?
That thou enquirest
after
mine iniquity, and searchest
after
my sin?
For
Thou knowest that I am not wicked ,
And there is no
deliverer
from
Thy
hand.
Thou knowest that I am not wicked ;
and there is none
that
can
deliver
out
of
thine
hand.
Thy
hands have taken
pains
about
me ,
And they
make
me together round about ,
And
Thou swallowest
me up!
Thine
hands have made
me and fashioned
me together round about ;
yet
thou dost
destroy
me .
Remember, I pray
Thee, That as
clay
Thou hast made me ,
And unto
dust
Thou dost
bring me back.
Remember, I beseech
thee, that thou hast made me as
the
clay;
and wilt
thou bring me into
dust
again?
Dost
Thou not as
milk
pour
me out ?
And
as cheese
curdle
me?
Hast
thou not poured
me out as milk,
and
curdled
me like
cheese
?
Skin and flesh Thou
dost
put
on
me
, And with bones and sinews dost
fence
me
.
Thou
hast
clothed
me
with
skin and flesh, and hast
fenced
me
with bones and sinews.
Life
and
kindness
Thou hast done
with
me .
And Thy inspection
hath preserved my spirit.
Thou hast granted
me life
and favour,
and
thy visitation
hath preserved my spirit.
And these Thou
hast laid
up
in Thy
heart ,
I have
known
that this `
is '
with Thee.
And these things
hast thou
hid
in thine
heart :
I know
that this is with thee.
If I sinned
, then Thou hast
observed
me, And from
mine
iniquity
dost
not acquit me ,
If I sin
, then thou markest
me, and thou
wilt
not acquit me from
mine
iniquity.
If I have
done
wickedly
--
wo
to
me
, And righteously
--
I lift
not up my head ,
Full of shame
--
then
see my
affliction ,
If 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 ;
And
it riseth
--
as
a
lion
Thou huntest me .
And Thou
turnest
back
--
Thou shewest Thyself wonderful
in
me.
For
it increaseth.
Thou huntest me as
a
fierce
lion:
and again
thou shewest thyself marvellous
upon
me.
Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost
multiply
Thine anger
with
me ,
Changes and warfare
`
are '
with
me.
Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest
thine indignation
upon
me ;
changes and war
are against
me.
And
why
from
the
womb
Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire
, and the
eye doth
not
see
me .
Wherefore
then
hast thou brought me forth out
of
the
womb
? Oh
that
I had
given
up
the
ghost
, and no
eye had
seen
me !
As I had not been ,
I am,
From the belly
to the grave I
am
brought,
I
should
have
been
as though
I had not been ;
I should
have
been
carried
from the womb
to the grave .
Are not my days few? Cease then, and put
from
me, And
I brighten
up
a little,
Are not my days few? cease then, and let
me alone
, that
I may
take
comfort
a little,
Before I go ,
and
return
not, Unto
a
land of darkness and death -shade,
Before I go whence
I
shall
not return
, even
to
the
land of darkness and the
shadow
of
death ;
A land of obscurity
as
thick
darkness, Death-shade
--
and no
order, And the shining
`
is '
as thick
darkness. '
A land of darkness, as
darkness
itself;
and of
the
shadow
of
death,
without
any
order, and where
the light
is as darkness.
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