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17     Like a prosecutor, You drag in witnesses against me;
        You escalate Your fury against me, coming in waves to pound on me.

18     So then, why did You bother to drag me out of the womb at all?
        I should have just died before any eye could see me.
19     It should have been as though I had never been:
        plucked from the womb, carried to the tomb.

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17 You bring new witnesses against me(A)
    and increase your anger toward me;(B)
    your forces come against me wave upon wave.(C)

18 “Why then did you bring me out of the womb?(D)
    I wish I had died before any eye saw me.(E)
19 If only I had never come into being,
    or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!(F)

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