11. “Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
12. Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?
13. When I say, ‘My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint;’
14. then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:
15. so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.
16. I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
17. What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,