Job 10:18-22

New International Version

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

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Job 10:18-22

New American Standard Bible

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