12. You gave me life and favor,and your intervention watched over my spirit.
13. “But these things you have concealed in your heart;I know that this is with you:
14. If I sinned, then you would watch meand you would not acquit me of my iniquity.
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!