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.”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 10:20 Lit Put

18 (A)“Why did you bring me out from the womb?
    Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
19 (B)and were as though I had not been,
    carried from the womb to the grave.
20 (C)Are not my days few?
    (D)Then cease, and leave me alone, (E)that I may find a little cheer
21 before I go—and (F)I shall not return—
    to the land of (G)darkness and (H)deep shadow,
22 the land of gloom like thick darkness,
    like deep shadow without any order,
    where light is as thick darkness.”

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