10 For that night did not shut
the doors of my mother’s womb,
and hide sorrow from my eyes.

11 Why was I not stillborn;
why didn’t I die as I came from the womb?(A)

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10 for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me
    to hide trouble from my eyes.

11 “Why did I not perish at birth,
    and die as I came from the womb?(A)

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10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

11 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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17 You produce new witnesses[a] against me
and multiply your anger toward me.
Hardships assault me, wave after wave.[b]

18 “Why did you bring me out of the womb?(A)
I should have died and never been seen.

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Footnotes

  1. 10:17 Or You bring fresh troops
  2. 10:17 Lit Changes and a host are with me

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)

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17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

18 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!

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17 because he didn’t kill me in the womb(A)
so that my mother might have been my grave,
her womb eternally pregnant.

18 Why did I come out of the womb
to see only struggle and sorrow,(B)
to end my life in shame?

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17 For he did not kill me in the womb,(A)
    with my mother as my grave,
    her womb enlarged forever.
18 Why did I ever come out of the womb(B)
    to see trouble(C) and sorrow
    and to end my days in shame?(D)

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17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.

18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

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