Job 10:16-18

New Catholic Bible

¹⁶ Should I lift up my head, you hunt me like a proud lion,
    confronting me time and again with your awesome power.
¹⁷ You renew your onslaughts against me,
    your fury increasing incessantly
    as fresh troops assail me wave after wave.

¹⁸ “ ‘Why did you bring me forth from the womb?
    It would have been better if I had died
    before an eye had beheld me,