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18 (A)“Why did you bring me out from the womb?
    Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
19 (B)and were as though I had not been,
    carried from the womb to the grave.

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14 (A)Cursed be the day
    on which I was born!
The day when my mother bore me,
    let it not be blessed!
15 Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father,
“A son is born to you”,
    (B)making him very glad.
16 Let that man be like (C)the cities
    that the Lord overthrew without pity;
(D)let him hear a cry in the morning
    and an alarm at noon,
17 (E)because he did not kill me in the womb;
    so my mother would have been my grave,
    and her womb for ever great.
18 (F)Why did I come out from the womb
    (G)to see toil and sorrow,
    and spend my days in shame?

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