¹⁸ 
‘Why then did You bring me out of the womb?
Would that I had perished and no eye had seen me!
¹⁹ 
‘I should have been as though I had not existed;
[I should have been] carried from the womb to the grave.’
²⁰ 
“Would He not let my few days alone,
Withdraw from me that I may have a little cheer
²¹ 
Before I go—and I shall not return—
To the land of darkness and the deep shadow [of death],
²² 
The [sunless] land of utter gloom as darkness itself,
[The land] of the shadow of death, without order,
And [where] it shines as [thick] darkness.”