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19 I wish I had never lived.
    I wish they had carried me from my mother’s womb straight to the grave.
20 My life is almost finished.
    So leave me alone!
    Let me enjoy the little time I have left.
21 I am going soon to the land of no return,
    the place of death and darkness—

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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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