11  You clothed me with skin and flesh,

and ^bknit me together with bones and sinews.

12  You have granted me life and steadfast love,

and your care has preserved my spirit.

13  Yet these things you hid in your heart;

I know that this was your purpose.

14  If I sin, you watch me

and ^cdo not acquit me of my iniquity.

15  If I am guilty, woe to me!

If ^dI am in the right, I cannot lift up my head,

for I am filled with disgrace

and look on my affliction.

16  And were my head lifted up,¹ you would hunt me like a lion

and again work wonders against me.

17  You renew your witnesses against me

and increase your vexation toward me;

^eyou bring fresh troops against me.

18  ^f“Why did you bring me out from the womb?

Would that I had died before any eye had seen me

19  and were as though I had not been,

carried from the womb to the grave.

20  ^gAre not my days few?

Then cease, and leave me alone, that ^hI may find a little cheer

21  before I go—and ⁱI shall not return—

to the land of ^jdarkness and deep shadow,

22  the land of gloom like thick darkness,

like deep shadow without any order,

where light is as thick darkness.”