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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,
* 21 before I travel to the land

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Footnotes

  1. 10.20 I have only … alone: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

19 If only I had never come into being,
    or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!(A)
20 Are not my few days(B) almost over?(C)
    Turn away from me(D) so I can have a moment’s joy(E)
21 before I go to the place of no return,(F)
    to the land of gloom and utter darkness,(G)

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