18 “Why did You bring me out of the womb?(A)
I should have died and never been seen.
19 I wish[a] I had never existed
but had been carried from the womb to the grave.(B)
20 Are my days not few? Stop it![b]
Leave me alone, so that I can smile a little
21 before I go to a land of darkness and gloom,(C)
never to return.
22 It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness,
gloomy and chaotic,
where even the light is like[c] the darkness.”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 10:19 Lit As if
  2. Job 10:20 Alt Hb tradition reads Will He not leave my few days alone?
  3. Job 10:22 Lit chaotic, and shines as

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