Job 10:19

American Standard Version (1901)

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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Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away, Like the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.

Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, 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, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

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

Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.