14. If I sin, then You observe me, and You will not acquit me from my iniquity and guilt.
15. If I am wicked, woe unto me! And if I am righteous, yet must I not lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and the sight of my affliction.
16. If I lift myself up, You hunt me like a lion and again show Yourself [inflicting] marvelous [trials] upon me.
17. You renew Your witnesses against me and increase Your indignation toward me; I am as if attacked by a troop time after time.
18. Why then did You bring me forth out of the womb? Would that I had perished and no eye had seen me!
19. I should have been as though I had not existed; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
20. Are not my days few? Cease then and let me alone, that I may take a little comfort and cheer up
21. Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,
22. The land of sunless gloom as intense darkness, [the land] of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as thick darkness.