¹⁶ If I lift myself up, You hunt me like a lion and again show Yourself [inflicting] marvelous [trials] upon me.

¹⁷ You renew Your witnesses against me and increase Your indignation toward me; I am as if attacked by a troop time after time.

¹⁸ Why then did You bring me forth out of the womb? Would that I had perished and no eye had seen me!