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Job 10:19

Modern English 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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“Why then did You bring me forth out of the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!

Are not my days few? Stop then, and leave me alone that I may cheer up a little,

because I was not cut off from the presence of darkness, nor has He covered the darkness from my face.

“Why did I not die at birth? Why did I not expire when I came out of the womb?

Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like infants who never saw light?

Let them be like a snail that melts as it goes, like the stillborn child of a woman, who never sees the sun.

because he did not kill me from the womb, so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb be always pregnant.