16. And if I hold my head high, you hunt me like a lionand display your awesome power against me.
17. Again and again you witness against me.You pour out your growing anger on meand bring fresh armies against me.
18. “‘Why, then, did you deliver me from my mother’s womb?Why didn’t you let me die at birth?
19. It would be as though I had never existed,going directly from the womb to the grave.
20. I have only a few days left, so leave me alone,that I may have a moment of comfort
21. before I leave—never to return—for the land of darkness and utter gloom.
22. It is a land as dark as midnight,a land of gloom and confusion,where even the light is dark as midnight.’”