12. You have granted me life and steadfast love,and your care has preserved my spirit.
13. Yet these things you hid in your heart;I know that this was your purpose.
14. If I sin, you watch meand do not acquit me of my iniquity.
15. If I am guilty, woe to me!If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head,for I am filled with disgraceand look on my affliction.
16. And were my head lifted up, you would hunt me like a lionand again work wonders against me.
17. You renew your witnesses against meand increase your vexation toward me;you bring fresh troops against me.
18. “Why did you bring me out from the womb?Would that I had died before any eye had seen me