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18 So why did you bring me out from the womb?
    I wish I had died, before anyone had seen me,
19 as if I had never existed;
    carried from the womb to the grave.
20 My days are so few, aren’t they?
    So leave me alone, then,
        so I can smile a little
21 before I go, never to return,
    leaving for the land of deep darkness and shadow.
22 It’s a gloomy land, like deepest darkness;
    where there’s no order,
        and where even[a] the brightness is like darkness.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 10:22 The Heb. lacks even

18 “Why then did you bring me out of the womb?(A)
    I wish I had died before any eye saw me.(B)
19 If only I had never come into being,
    or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!(C)
20 Are not my few days(D) almost over?(E)
    Turn away from me(F) so I can have a moment’s joy(G)
21 before I go to the place of no return,(H)
    to the land of gloom and utter darkness,(I)
22 to the land of deepest night,
    of utter darkness(J) and disorder,
    where even the light is like darkness.”(K)

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