I shall be afraid of all my sufferings. I know that You do not hold me innocent.
My flesh has trembled for fear of You, And I am in awe of Your right-rulings.
O Yah, if You should watch crookednesses, O יהוה, who would stand?
And when I consider it I am frightened, and my body shudders.
For now You count my steps – do You not watch over my sin?
If I sin, then You watch me, and let no crookedness of mine go unpunished.
“Truly I know it is so. But how is man right with Elohim?
And why do You not pardon my transgression, and take away my crookedness? For now I lie down in the dust, and You shall seek me, but I am not.”
For that which I greatly feared has come upon me, and that which I dreaded has overtaken me.
“You do not bring the Name of יהוה your Elohim to naught, for יהוה does not leave the one unpunished who brings His Name to naught.
If I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, does it leave me?
See, He finds occasions against me, He counts me as His enemy;