Job 10:19

Revised Standard Version

and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.

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Let them be like the snail which dissolves into slime, like the untimely birth that never sees the sun.

“Why did I not die at birth, come forth from the womb and expire?

“Why didst thou bring me forth from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me,

Are not the days of my life few? Let me alone, that I may find a little comfort

for I am hemmed in by darkness, and thick darkness covers my face.

because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb for ever great.

Or why was I not as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never see the light?