I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know you will not hold me innocent.
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
I become afraid of all my pains and sorrows [yet to come], for I know You will not pronounce me innocent [by removing them].
I’m still afraid of all my suffering; I know that you won’t declare me innocent.
I have dreaded all my works, knowing that you did not spare the offender.
I feared all my works, knowing that thou didst not spare the offender.
If I sin, you watch me, and do not acquit me of my iniquity.
For then you would not number my steps, you would not keep watch over my sin;
“If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
When I think of it I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.
Truly the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me.
Look, he finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy;
Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be.”
“Indeed I know that this is so; but how can a mortal be just before God?
My flesh trembles for fear of you, and I am afraid of your judgments.
If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand?
You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name.