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18 “So why did you ·allow me to be born [L bring me out of the womb]?
    ·I wish I had died [L Why did I not die…?] before ·anyone [L any eye] saw me.
19 I wish I had never lived,
    but had been carried straight from ·birth [L womb] to the grave.
20 The few days of my life are almost over.
    Leave me alone so I can have a moment of joy [Eccl. 2:24–26; 3:12–14, 22; 8:15; 5:19–20; 9:7–10].

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