Job 10:18–19

“Why did you bring me out from the womb?

Would that I had died before any eye had seen me

and were as though I had not been,

carried from the womb to the grave.

“Why then did you bring me out of the womb?

I wish I had died before any eye saw me.

If only I had never come into being,

or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!

“ ‘Why, then, did you deliver me from my mother’s womb?

Why didn’t you let me die at birth?

It would be as though I had never existed,

going directly from the womb to the grave.

So why did you bring me forth from the womb?

I should have passed away, and no eye should have seen me.

I should have been as though I had not been;

I should have been brought from the womb to the grave.

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;

I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.