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17 Thou dost renew thy plagues against me and increase thine indignation upon me, bringing up armies against me.

18 Why then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the spirit and no eye had seen me!

19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried 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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