12. Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?
13. When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, and my couch will ease my complaint,’
14. then you terrify me with dreams, and with visions you terrify me.
15. So my inner self will choose strangling— death more than my existence.
16. I loathe my life; I would not live forever; depart from me, for my days are a breath.
17. “What is a human being that you make him great and that you fix your mind on him,
18. so that you visit him every morning, you test him every moment?
19. How long will you not turn away from me? Or not leave me alone until I swallow my spit?
20. If I have sinned, what have I done to you, watcher of humanity? Why have you made me as a target for yourself, so that I have become a burden to myself?