12 You gave me life and steadfast love, and Your care has preserved my spirit.
13 “Yet these things You have hid in Your heart, for I know that this is with You.
14 If I sinned, You would watch me, and not acquit me of my iniquity.
15 If I am guilty, woe to me! Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and conscious of my affliction.
16 If my head is held high, You hunt me like a lion, and again work wonders against me.
17 You renew Your witnesses against me, and increase Your anger toward me, change and warfare are with me.
18 “Why then did You bring me out from the womb? I should have died so no eye would have seen me.