15. If I am guilty, woe to me,and if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head;I am full of shame,and satiated with my affliction.
16. If I lift myself up,you hunt me as a fierce lion,and again you display your power against me.
17. You bring new witnesses against me,and increase your anger against me;relief troops come against me.
18. “Why then did you bring me out from the womb?I should have died and no eye would have seen me!
19. I should have been as though I had never existed;I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!
20. Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone,that I may find a little comfort,
21. before I depart, never to return,to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,
22. to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness,and the deepest shadow and disorder,where even the light is like darkness.”