¹⁶ Should my head be set on high, ^(A)You would hunt me like a lion;
And again You would show Your ^(B)wonders against me.
¹⁷ You renew ^(C)Your witnesses against me
And increase Your vexation toward me;
^[a](D)Hardship after hardship is with me.

¹⁸ ‘^(E)Why then have You brought me out of the womb?
Would that I had breathed my last and no eye had seen me!