12. Life and kindness you gave me,and you oversaw and preserved my breath.
13. These things you hid in your heart;I know this is the case with you.
14. If I sin and you observe me,you won’t consider me innocent of wrongdoing.
15. If I were guilty, doom to me;I’m innocent, but can’t lift my head,full of shame and facing my misery.
16. I could boast like a lion, and you would hunt me;you would do awesome things to me again.
17. You continue to send your witnesses against meand increase your anger toward me,a swift army against me.
18. Why did you let me emerge from the womb?I wish I had died without any eye seeing me.
19. Then I would be just as if I hadn’t existed,taken from the belly to the grave.
20. Aren’t my few days coming to an end?Look away from me so I can brighten up a little
21. before I go and don’t returnto a land of deepest darkness,
22. a land whose light is like gloom,utter darkness and confusion,such that light shines like gloom.