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For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept -- then there is rest to me,

(Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants -- they have not seen light.)

The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes [are] upon me -- and I am not.

A sea-[monster] am I, or a dragon, That thou settest over me a guard?

I have sinned, what do I to Thee, O watcher of man? Why hast Thou set me for a mark to Thee, And I am for a burden to myself -- and what?

Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me -- and I am not!

If I be righteous, Mine mouth doth declare me wicked, Perfect I am! -- it declareth me perverse.

Perfect I am! -- I know not my soul, I despise my life.

I -- I am become wicked; why [is] this? [In] vain I labour.

I speak, and do not fear Him, But I am not right with myself.

For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Thy hand.

As I had not been, I am, From the belly to the grave I am brought,

I also have a heart like you, I am not fallen more than you, And with whom is there not like these?

A laughter to his friend I am: `He calleth to God, and He answereth him,' A laughter [is] the perfect righteous one.

According to your knowledge I have known -- also I. I am not fallen more than you.

Lo, I pray you, I have set in order the cause, I have known that I am righteous.

Only two things, O God, do with me: Then from Thy face I am not hidden.

And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.

Lo, I cry out -- violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.

Therefore, from His presence I am troubled, I consider, and am afraid of Him.