11-16 “And so I’m not keeping one bit of this quiet,
    I’m laying it all out on the table;
    my complaining to high heaven is bitter, but honest.
Are you going to put a muzzle on me,
    the way you quiet the sea and still the storm?
If I say, ‘I’m going to bed, then I’ll feel better.
    A little nap will lift my spirits,’
You come and so scare me with nightmares
    and frighten me with ghosts
That I’d rather strangle in the sheets
    than face this kind of life any longer.
I hate this life! Who needs any more of this?
    Let me alone! There’s nothing to my life—it’s nothing
        but smoke.

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14 even then you frighten me with dreams
    and terrify(A) me with visions,(B)
15 so that I prefer strangling and death,(C)
    rather than this body of mine.(D)
16 I despise my life;(E) I would not live forever.(F)
    Let me alone;(G) my days have no meaning.(H)

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