⁵ Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.

¹⁰ Because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, Nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

¹¹ "Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

¹² Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?

¹³ For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

¹ "Man, who is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.

⁸ Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, Like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.

⁷ For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

⁸ You have set our iniquities before you, Our secret sins in the light of your presence.

⁹ For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.