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19 It would have been better if I had not been born.
Or they should have put me in my grave,
    immediately after my birth.
20 I will only live for a few more days.
    So leave me alone! Then I may be happy for a moment.
21 I will soon go to the dark place where there is no hope.
    I will never come back from that place.

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19 If only I had never come into being,
    or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!(A)
20 Are not my few days(B) almost over?(C)
    Turn away from me(D) so I can have a moment’s joy(E)
21 before I go to the place of no return,(F)
    to the land of gloom and utter darkness,(G)

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