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The stars of early morning should be dark on that day.
    Do not let the sun shine at dawn,
    so that there is no end to the dark night.
10 I curse that day because it allowed me to be born.
    It brought me into a life of trouble.

11 It would have been better if I had died at birth.
    I should have been born dead.

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May its morning stars become dark;
    may it wait for daylight in vain
    and not see the first rays of dawn,(A)
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?(B)

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