12. Life and kindness You have bestowed on me, and Your visitation has preserved my spirit.
13. And these You have laid up in Your heart, I know that this was with You:
14. If I sin, then You watch me, and let no crookedness of mine go unpunished.
15. If I am wrong, woe to me! And if I am righteous, I would not lift up my head – filled with shame and seeing my grief!
16. If I lift it up high, you hunt me as a lion, and again You would show Yourself marvellous against me.
17. You renew Your witnesses against me, and increase Your vexation toward me; changes and a host are with me.
18. So why have You brought me forth from the womb? Oh, that I had perished and no eye had seen me!