Whythen have You broughtme out of the womb?Would that I had diedand noeyehad seenme!
I should have beenas thoughI had not been,Carriedfrom wombto tomb.'
"But the eyesof the wickedwill fail,And there will be noescapefor them; And their hopeis to breathetheir last."
"But mandiesand liesprostrate.Manexpires,and whereis he?
But I am not silencedby the darkness,Nordeep gloom[which] coversme.
By You I have been sustainedfrom [my] birth;You are He who tookme from my mother'swomb;My praiseis continuallyof You.
Woeto me, my mother,that you have borneme [As] a manof strifeand a manof contentionto allthe land!I have not lent,norhave men lentmoney to me, [Yet] everyonecursesme.
"The Sonof Man[is to] go,justas it is writtenof Him; but woeto that manby whomthe Sonof Manis betrayed!It would have beengoodfor that manifhe had not been born."
