^18 (A)“Why did you bring me out from the womb?
    Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
^19 (B)and were as though I had not been,
    carried from the womb to the grave.

^14 (A)Cursed be the day
    on which I was born!
The day when my mother bore me,
    let it not be blessed!
¹⁵ Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father,
“A son is born to you,”
    ^(B)making him very glad.
¹⁶ Let that man be like ^(C)the cities
    that the Lord overthrew without pity;
^(D)let him hear a cry in the morning
    and an alarm at noon,
^17 (E)because he did not kill me in the womb;
    so my mother would have been my grave,
    and her womb forever great.
^18 (F)Why did I come out from the womb
    ^(G)to see toil and sorrow,
    and spend my days in shame?