12. Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
13. And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.
14. If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
15. If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
16. For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
17. Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
18. Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
19. I should have been as though I had not been; I should 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 whence 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.