²⁰ If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden to myself?

¹² He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

⁶ Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God; Thy judgments are a great deep: O Jehovah, thou preservest man and beast.

⁴ O Jehovah God of hosts, How long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

¹² For thou wilt make them turn their back; Thou wilt make ready with thy bowstrings against their face.

⁶ If thou hast sinned, what effectest thou against him? And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

²⁷ He singeth before men, and saith, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, And it profited me not:

⁹ I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:

³³ If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,

⁵ Is not thy wickedness great? Neither is there any end to thine iniquities.

¹² I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark.

¹³ His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.

¹⁴ He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant.

¹⁶ But now thou numberest my steps: Dost thou not watch over my sin?

²⁶ For thou writest bitter things against me, And makest me to inherit the iniquities of my youth:

²⁹ I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?

³⁰ If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean;

³¹ Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me.

¹¹ Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

¹² Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That thou settest a watch over me?

⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

²⁴ For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.

⁶ Thou art Jehovah, even thou alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all things that are thereon, the seas and all that is in them, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.