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¹ I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. ² Show me why You contend with me. ³ And smile on the counsel of the wicked? ⁴ Or do You see as man sees? ⁵ Are Your years like the days of a mighty man, ⁶ And search out my sin, ⁷ And there is no one who can deliver from Your hand? ⁸ Yet You would destroy me. ⁹ And will You turn me into dust again? ¹⁰ And curdle me like cheese, ¹¹ And knit me together with bones and sinews? ¹² And Your care has preserved my spirit. ¹³ I know that this was with You: ¹⁴ And will not acquit me of my iniquity. ¹⁵ See my misery! ¹⁶ And again You show Yourself awesome against me. ¹⁷ Changes and war are ever with me. ¹⁸ Oh, that I had perished and no eye had seen me! ¹⁹ I would have been carried from the womb to the grave. ²⁰ Cease! Leave me alone, that I may take a little comfort, ²¹ To the land of darkness and the shadow of death, ²² Where even the light is like darkness.’ ”