¹Duši moji se gnusi življenje; zato naj tožba moja teče, govoril bodem v bridkosti duše svoje.

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.

²Rečem Bogu: Ne obsojaj me; povej mi, zakaj se prepiraš z menoj?

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

³Ti li dobro de, da tlačiš, da zametaš rok svojih delo, s svetlobo pa obsevaš namero brezbožnih?

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?

⁴Imaš li oči mesene, ali pa vidiš, kakor človek vidi?

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

⁵So li dnevi tvoji kakor dnevi smrtnika, ali leta tvoja omejena kakor dnevi človeka?

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

⁶da vprašuješ tako po krivdi moji in greh moj zasleduješ,

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

⁷dasi veš, da nisem kriv in da nikogar ni, ki more oteti iz tvoje roke!

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

⁸Roke tvoje so me upodobile in naredile vsega, kakor sem kroginkrog – in sedaj me zatiraš?

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

⁹Spomni se vendar, da si me kakor glino napravil, in hočeš me zopet vrniti v prah?

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

¹⁰Me li nisi kakor mleko ulil in strdil kakor sir?

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

¹¹S kožo in mesom si me oblekel, s kostmi in kitami si me prepletel.

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

¹²Življenje in milost si mi daroval in s svojo skrbjo mi duha varoval.

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

¹³A tole si skrival v srcu svojem, vem, da ti je bilo to v mislih:

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

¹⁴ako bom grešil, da name boš strogo pazil in krivde moje me ne boš oprostil.

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

¹⁵Ako sem krivično ravnal, gorje mi! in čeprav bi bil pravičen, si ne upam povzdigniti glave, nasičen sramote in zroč bedo svojo.

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.

¹⁶In ako bi povzdignil glavo, podil me boš kakor lev in zopet izkazoval čudovito moč svojo na meni;

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

¹⁷vnovič postaviš priče svoje proti meni in pomnožiš nevoljo svojo zoper mene, vedno nova krdela in vojske boš pošiljal nadme.

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

¹⁸Zakaj si mi dal priti iz materinega telesa? Naj bi bil umrl in nobeno oko me ne bi bilo videlo!

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.

¹⁹Naj bi bil, kakor bi ne bil živel nikdar, od materinega telesa naj bi bil prenesen v grob!

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

²⁰Ni li dni mojih malo? Odnehaj, obrni se od mene, da se malo razvedrim,

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

²¹preden odidem, odkoder se ne vrnem, v deželo temine in smrtne sence,v deželo temnejšo od mraka, kjer je le senca smrti in nered, kjer noč najbolj črna se šteje za svetlost.

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

²²v deželo temnejšo od mraka, kjer je le senca smrti in nered, kjer noč najbolj črna se šteje za svetlost.

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