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12 Instead, my mother held me on her knees.
    I drank from her breasts.
13 If I had died at birth, I would now be resting in peace.
14 I would be resting with kings and rulers.
    They lived in beautiful houses which are now heaps of stones.

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12 Why were there knees to receive me(A)
    and breasts that I might be nursed?
13 For now I would be lying down(B) in peace;
    I would be asleep and at rest(C)
14 with kings and rulers of the earth,(D)
    who built for themselves places now lying in ruins,(E)

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