Day after day, I try not to hurt anyone around me. I strive to mind my own business, yet more and more people seem irritated by my mere existence. I feel subhuman, like a worm or a bug. Why am I despised by these people? Why can’t they just leave me alone? There is no peace by day or by night, so much so that I wish I had never been born.
LORD, Hashem, why did You allow me to be born? Why must I exist if my very presence is so painful? Are they coming for me, for my wife, or for my kids? No one feels safe anymore. LORD, please save me from this torture. Either deliver my family and me or take me from this world. Oh, G-d of all mercies, my helper, do not be late.
Out of Egypt 