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17 Again and again you witness against me and pour out an ever-increasing volume of wrath upon me and bring fresh armies against me.

18 “‘Why then did you even let me be born? Why didn’t you let me die at birth? 19 Then I would have been spared this miserable existence. I would have gone directly from the womb to the grave.

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17 You bring new witnesses against me(A)
    and increase your anger toward me;(B)
    your forces come against me wave upon wave.(C)

18 “Why then did you bring me out of the womb?(D)
    I wish I had died before any eye saw me.(E)
19 If only I had never come into being,
    or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!(F)

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