²¹ “Although I am blameless,^(A)
    I have no concern for myself;^(B)
    I despise my own life.^(C)

²⁶ Those who trust in themselves are fools,^(A)
    but those who walk in wisdom are kept safe.^(B)

²³ Search me,^(A) God, and know my heart;^(B)
    test me and know my anxious thoughts.
²⁴ See if there is any offensive way^(C) in me,
    and lead me^(D) in the way everlasting.

²¹ Why do you not pardon my offenses
    and forgive my sins?^(A)
For I will soon lie down in the dust;^(B)
    you will search for me, but I will be no more.”^(C)

⁹ The heart^(A) is deceitful above all things
    and beyond cure.
    Who can understand it?

¹⁰ “I the Lord search the heart^(B)
    and examine the mind,^(C)
to reward^(D) each person according to their conduct,
    according to what their deeds deserve.”^(E)

¹⁵ so that I prefer strangling and death,^(A)
    rather than this body of mine.^(B)
16 I despise my life;^(C) I would not live forever.^(D)
    Let me alone;^(E) my days have no meaning.^(F)