²¹ I am blameless. I don't regard myself. I despise my life.

¹ There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

¹⁵ So that my soul chooses strangling, Death rather than my bones.

¹⁶ I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone; for my days are but a breath.

²¹ Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."

²³ Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

²⁴ See if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way.

²⁶ One who trusts in himself is a fool; But one who walks in wisdom, he is kept safe.

⁹ The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

¹⁰ I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

⁴ For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

²⁰ because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.