19 I wish[a] I had never existed
but had been carried from the womb to the grave.(A)
20 Are my days not few? Stop it![b]
Leave me alone, so that I can smile a little
21 before I go to a land of darkness and gloom,(B)
never to return.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 10:19 Lit As if
  2. Job 10:20 Alt Hb tradition reads Will He not leave my few days alone?

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