17. You continue to send your witnesses against meand increase your anger toward me,a swift army against me.
18. Why did you let me emerge from the womb?I wish I had died without any eye seeing me.
19. Then I would be just as if I hadn’t existed,taken from the belly to the grave.
20. Aren’t my few days coming to an end?Look away from me so I can brighten up a little
21. before I go and don’t returnto a land of deepest darkness,
22. a land whose light is like gloom,utter darkness and confusion,such that light shines like gloom.