¹Moja duša si oškliví môj život. A už akokoľvek, zanechám na sebe svoju žiaľbu; budem hovoriť v horkosti svojej duše.

¹“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

²Poviem Bohu: Neodsudzuj ma! Oznám mi, prečo sa so mnou pravotíš?

²I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

³Či ti je to dobré, že utiskuješ, že opovrhuješ prácnym dielom svojich rúk a svietiš na radu bezbožných?

³Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

⁴Či ty máš azda oči nejakého tela? Či ty vidíš, ako vidí smrteľný človek?

⁴Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?

⁵Či sú tvoje dni jako dni smrteľníka? Či sú tvoje roky jako dni muža,

⁵Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man’s years,

⁶že vyhľadávaš moju neprávosť a pýtaš sa na môj hriech?

⁶that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

⁷Napriek tomu, že vieš, že nie som bezbožný, a že nieto nikoho, kto by vytrhnul z tvojej ruky.

⁷Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

⁸Tvoje ruky ma sformovaly a učinily ma celého dookola, a teraz ma pohlcuješ!

⁸“‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

⁹Pamätaj, prosím, že si ma učinil ako blato a že ma zase navrátiš do prachu!

⁹Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

¹⁰Či si ma neslial ako mlieko a nezhustil si ma jako na syr?

¹⁰Haven’t you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?

¹¹Priodial si ma kožou a mäsom a pospletal si ma kosťami a žilami.

¹¹You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

¹²Daroval si mi život a učinil si so mnou milosť: tvoj starostlivý dozor ostríhal môjho ducha.

¹²You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.

¹³Ale toto si skryl vo svojom srdci; viem, že je to u teba:

¹³Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:

¹⁴ak zhreším, spozoruješ ma, a neoprostíš ma mojej neprávosti.

¹⁴if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

¹⁵Keby som spáchal bezbožnosť, beda mi, a jestli som spravedlivý, nepozdvihnem svojej hlavy, sýty potupy a vidiac svoje trápenie.

¹⁵If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

¹⁶A keď sa pozdvihne, budeš ma honiť ako lev a znova budeš predivne so mnou zaobchodiť;

¹⁶If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.

¹⁷obnovíš svojich svedkov proti mne a rozmnožíš u mňa svoju nevoľu; vyšleš čatu za čatou, a vojsko bude u mňa.

¹⁷You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.

¹⁸Prečo si ma tedy vyviedol zo života matky? Bol by som zomrel, a nebolo by ma uvidelo oko;

¹⁸“‘Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

¹⁹bol by som, ako keby ma nebolo nikdy bývalo; z lona by som bol býval zanesený do hrobu.

¹⁹I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

²⁰Či azda nie je i tak mojich dní iba málo? Nechže už prestane; nech odvráti odo mňa svoj pozor, aby som sa poveselil trochu,

²⁰Aren’t my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

²¹prv ako pojdem, a viacej sa nevrátim, do zeme tmy a tône smrti,

²¹before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

²²do zeme hustej tmy jako mrak tône smrti, kde nieto nijakého poriadku, ta, kde je svetlosť ako mrak.

²²the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’”