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Job 10:18-20
Contemporary English Version

18 Why did you let me be born?
I would rather have died
    before birth
19 and been carried to the grave
    without ever breathing.
20 I have only a few days left.
Why don't you leave me alone?[a]
    Let me find some relief,
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  1. 10.20 I have only … alone: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
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Job 10:18-20
New International Version

18 “Why then did you bring me out of the womb?(A)
    I wish I had died before any eye saw me.(B)
19 If only I had never come into being,
    or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!(C)
20 Are not my few days(D) almost over?(E)
    Turn away from me(F) so I can have a moment’s joy(G)

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