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

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

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

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

⁴ for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.

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

² "Even today is my complaint rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

¹⁸ "'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, 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 anguish were 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 to Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.

³¹ Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

¹⁷ because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.