16. My face has grown red with weeping,and darkness covers my eyes,
17. although my hands are free from violence and my prayer is pure.
18. Earth, do not cover my blood;may my cry for help find no resting place.
19. Even now my witness is in heaven,and my advocate is in the heights!
20. My friends scoff at meas I weep before God.
21. I wish that someone might arbitratebetween a man and God just as a man pleads for his friend.
22. For only a few years will passbefore I go the way of no return.