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

¹⁸ For Jehovah had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

¹⁰ Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

³ If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:

⁴ for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;

⁵ moreover it hath not seen the sun nor known it; this hath rest rather than the other:

² Even to-day is my complaint rebellious: My stroke is heavier than my groaning.

¹⁸ Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

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

¹ My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

² Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!

³ For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas: Therefore have my words been rash.

⁵ but unto Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but Jehovah had shut up her womb.

³¹ And Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb. But Rachel was barren.

¹⁷ because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.