18. “O earth, do not cover my blood,And let my cry have no resting place!
19. Surely even now my witness is in heaven,And my evidence is on high.
20. My friends scorn me;My eyes pour out tears to God.
21. Oh, that one might plead for a man with God,As a man pleads for his neighbor!
22. For when a few years are finished,I shall go the way of no return.