"Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?"
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But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:
Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?
Wherefore did I not die from the womb, -- come forth from the belly and expire?
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not expire at the time of my birth?
"Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp!