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19 as if I had never existed;
    carried from the womb to the grave.
20 My days are so few, aren’t they?
    So leave me alone, then,
        so I can smile a little
21 before I go, never to return,
    leaving for the land of deep darkness and shadow.

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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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