15. 'If I am wicked, woe to me! And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head. I am sated with disgrace and conscious of my misery.
16. 'Should my head be lifted up, You would hunt me like a lion; And again You would show Your power against me.
17. 'You renew Your witnesses against me And increase Your anger toward me; Hardship after hardship is with me.
18. 'Why then have You brought me out of the womb? Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!
19. 'I should have been as though I had not been, Carried from womb to tomb.'
20. "Would He not let my few days alone? Withdraw from me that I may have a little cheer
21. Before I go-and I shall not return- To the land of darkness and deep shadow,
22. The land of utter gloom as darkness itself, Of deep shadow without order, And which shines as the darkness."