⁸ ‘^(L)Your hands fashioned and made me ^[d]altogether,
^(M)Yet would You destroy me?
⁹ Remember that You have made me as ^(N)clay;
Yet would You ^(O)turn me into dust again?
¹⁰ Did You not pour me out like milk,
And curdle me like cheese,
¹¹ Clothe me with skin and flesh,
And intertwine me with bones and tendons?
¹² You have ^(P)granted me life and ^[e]goodness;
And Your care has guarded my spirit.
¹³ Yet You have concealed ^(Q)these things in Your heart;
I know that this is within You:
¹⁴ If I have sinned, You will ^(R)take note of me,
And ^(S)will not acquit me of my guilt.
¹⁵ If ^(T)I am wicked, woe to me!
But if ^(U)I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head.
I am full of shame, and ^[f]conscious of my misery.
¹⁶ And should my head be high, ^(V)You would hunt me like a lion;
And You would show Your ^(W)power against me again.
¹⁷ You renew ^(X)Your witnesses against me
And increase Your anger toward me;
^[g](Y)Hardship after hardship is with me.

¹⁸ ‘^(Z)Why then did You bring me out of the womb?
If only I had died and no eye had seen me!
¹⁹ I should have been as though I had not been,
Brought from womb to tomb.’
²⁰ Would He not leave ^(AA)my few days alone?
^[h](AB)Withdraw from me so that I may have a little cheerfulness
²¹ Before I go—^(AC)and I shall not return—
^(AD)To the land of darkness and ^(AE)deep shadow,
²² The land of utter gloom like darkness itself,
Of deep shadow without order,
And it shines like darkness.”