¹⁸ ‘^(A)Why then did You bring me out of the womb?
If only I had died and no eye had seen me!
¹⁹ I should have been as though I had not been,
Brought from womb to tomb.’
²⁰ Would He not leave ^(B)my few days alone?
^[a](C)Withdraw from me so that I may have a little cheerfulness
²¹ Before I go—^(D)and I shall not return—
^(E)To the land of darkness and ^(F)deep shadow,
²² The land of utter gloom like darkness itself,
Of deep shadow without order,
And it shines like darkness.”