15. If I am wrong, woe to me! And if I am righteous, I would not lift up my head – filled with shame and seeing my grief!
16. If I lift it up high, you hunt me as a lion, and again You would show Yourself marvellous against me.
17. You renew Your witnesses against me, and increase Your vexation toward me; changes and a host are with me.
18. So why have You brought me forth from the womb? Oh, that I had perished and no eye had seen me!
19. I should have been as though I had not been – brought from the womb to the grave.
20. Are not my days few? Then cease! Leave me alone, so that I brighten up a little,
21. Before I go, and not return, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,
22. a land as dark as darkness itself, as the shadow of death, without any order, whose light is as darkness.”