21 saying:

Naked I came from my mother’s womb,(A)
and naked I will leave this life.[a](B)
The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away.
Blessed be the name of the Lord.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 1:21 Lit will return there; Ps 139:13,15

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)

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Footnotes

  1. 10:19 Lit As if

17 because he didn’t kill me in the womb(A)
so that my mother might have been my grave,
her womb eternally pregnant.

18 Why did I come out of the womb
to see only struggle and sorrow,(B)
to end my life in shame?

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