16. Should it lift up, you hunt me like a lion:repeatedly you show your wondrous power against me,
17. You renew your attack upon meand multiply your harassment of me;in waves your troops come against me.
18. Why then did you bring me forth from the womb?I should have died and no eye have seen me.
19. I should be as though I had never lived;I should have been taken from the womb to the grave.
20. Are not my days few? Stop!Let me alone, that I may recover a little
21. Before I go whence I shall not return,to the land of darkness and of gloom,
22. The dark, disordered landwhere darkness is the only light.