If I have sinned, what have I done to you, Watcher of humanity? Why have you made me your target, so that I have become a burden to you?
He strung his bow and set me as the target for his arrow.
I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.
If you sin, how does it affect God? If you multiply your transgressions, what does it do to him?
He will look at men and say, ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.
‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.
Have I covered my transgressions as others do by hiding my iniquity in my heart
Isn’t your wickedness abundant and aren’t your iniquities endless?
For then you would count my steps but would not take note of my sin.
For you record bitter accusations against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
Surely the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks their poison. God’s terrors are arrayed against me.
You, Lord, are the only God. , You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their stars, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all of them, and all the stars of heaven worship you.
if I sin, you would notice, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.
For you ask, ‘What does it profit you, and what benefit comes to me, if I do not sin? ’
I will say to God, ‘Do not declare me guilty! Let me know why you prosecute me.
that you look for my iniquity and search for my sin,