12. Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
13. Yet these things thou didst hide in thine heart; I know that this is with thee:
14. If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
15. If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head; being filled with ignominy and looking upon mine affliction.
16. And if my head exalt itself, thou huntest me as a lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvelous upon me.
17. Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and warfare are with me.
18. Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.
19. I should have been as though I had not been; 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 comfort a little,
21. Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
22. A land of thick darkness, as darkness itself; a land of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.