18 ‘Why^a then have You brought me out of the womb?
Oh, that I had perished and no eye had seen me! ‡

19 I would have been as though I had not been.
I would have been carried from the womb to the grave.

21 Before I go to the place from which I shall not return,
^aTo the land of darkness ^band the shadow of death, ‡

22 A land as dark as darkness itself,
As the shadow of death, without any order,
Where even the light is like darkness.’ ”