Job 10:19-21

The Voice

¹⁹     It should have been as though I had never been:
        plucked from the womb, carried to the tomb.
²⁰     Aren’t my days almost finished anyway?
        Stand back, leave me alone, and let me have a scrap of comfort
²¹     Before I go to the place from which I won’t return,
        to the land of utter darkness and still shadows,