15. I would rather be strangled—rather die than suffer like this.
16. I hate my life and don’t want to go on living.Oh, leave me alone for my few remaining days.
17. “What are people, that you should make so much of us,that you should think of us so often?
18. For you examine us every morningand test us every moment.
19. Why won’t you leave me alone,at least long enough for me to swallow!
20. If I have sinned, what have I done to you,O watcher of all humanity?Why make me your target?Am I a burden to you?
21. Why not just forgive my sinand take away my guilt?For soon I will lie down in the dust and die.When you look for me, I will be gone.”