14. If I have sinned, and you have spared me for an hour, why do you not endure me to be clean from my iniquity?
15. And if I should be impious, woe to me, and if I should be just, I will not lift up my head, being drenched with affliction and misery.
16. And because of pride, you will seize me like a lioness, and having returned, you torment me to an extraordinary degree.
17. You renew your testimony against me, and you multiply your wrath against me, and these punishments make war within me.
18. Why did you lead me out of the womb? If only I had been consumed, so that no eye would ever see me!
19. I should have been as if I had not been: transferred from the womb to the tomb.
20. Will not my few days be completed soon? Release me, therefore, so that I may lament my sorrows a little,
21. before I depart and return no more to a land that is dark and covered with the fog of death,
22. a land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and nothing else but everlasting horror, dwells.