I should have been as though I had not been – brought from the womb to the burial-site.
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
I should have been as though I had not existed; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
Then I would be just as if I hadn’t existed, taken from the belly to the grave.
I should have been as if I had not been: transferred from the womb to the tomb.
I should have been as if I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.
So why have You brought me forth from the womb? Oh, that I had perished and no eye had seen me!
Are not my days few? Then cease! Leave me alone, so that I brighten up a little,
because I was not cut off before darkness, and from my face He has covered the thick darkness.
Why did I not die from the womb, come forth from the belly and expire?
or as a hidden untimely birth, as infants who never saw light?
Like a snail which melts away as it moves, Like a woman’s stillbirth, Let them not see the sun!
because I was not slain from the womb, so that my mother should have been my burial-site and her womb forever great.