^{10 Ref} Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.

^{11 Ref} Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?

^{12 Ref} Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?

^{13 Ref} For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,

^{14 Ref} With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;

^{15 Ref} Or with rulers who had gold, and whose houses were full of silver;

^{16 Ref} Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.