16 Like a proud, ferocious lion you hunt me down.You keep working your miracles against me.
17 You keep finding new witnesses against me.You keep increasing your anger toward me.You keep bringing new armies against me.
18 “‘Why did you take me out of the womb?I wish I had breathed my last breathbefore anyone had laid eyes on me.
19 Then it would be as if I had never existed,as if I had been carried from the womb to the tomb.
20 “‘Isn’t my life short enough?So stop ⌊this⌋, and leave me alone.Let me smile a little
21 before I go awayto a land of darkness and gloom,
22 to a dismal land of long shadows and confusionwhere light is as bright as darkness.I’ll never return.’ ”