Job 10:19

A Conservative Version

I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

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as a snail which melts and passes away, [as] the untimely birth of a woman, that has not seen the sun.

Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

Why then have thou brought me forth out of the womb? I would have given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little

because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

because he did not kill me from the womb, and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

Or I should have been as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never saw light.