13. “But this is what you concealed in your heart, and I know that this was in your mind:
14. If I sinned, you would be watching me and would not let my offense go unpunished.
15. If I am guilty—woe to me! Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head, for I am full of shame and drowned in my affliction.
16. If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lion and again display your awesome power against me.
17. You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger toward me; your forces come against me wave upon wave.
18. “Why then did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died before any eye saw me.
19. If only I had never come into being, or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!