12. You have granted me life and favor, and your care has preserved my spirit.
13. And these things have you hid in your heart: I know that this is with you.
14. If I sin, then you mark me, and you will not acquit me from my iniquity.
15. If I am wicked, woe unto me; and if I am righteous, yet can I not lift up my head. I am full of disgrace; therefore see my affliction;
16. For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion: and again you show yourself awesome against me.
17. You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation upon me; changes and war are ever with me.
18. Why then have you brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
19. I would have been as though I had not been; I would 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 where I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
22. A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.