Job 10:18-22

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Why did you let me emerge from the womb?
    I wish I had died without any eye seeing me.
¹⁹ Then I would be just as if I hadn’t existed,
    taken from the belly to the grave.
²⁰ Aren’t my few days coming to an end?
Look away from me so I can brighten up a little
²¹     before I go and don’t return
    to a land of deepest darkness,
²²     a land whose light is like gloom,
        utter darkness and confusion,
        such that light shines like gloom.