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'Why then did You bring me out of the womb? If only I had died and no eye had seen me!

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

'I should have been as though I had not been, Brought from womb to tomb.'

I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

"Would He not leave my few days alone? Withdraw from me so that I may have a little cheerfulness

Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

Before I go—and I shall not return— To the land of darkness and deep shadow,

Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

The land of utter gloom like darkness itself, Of deep shadow without order, And it shines like darkness."

A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.