¹⁰ Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes.

¹⁸ for Jehovah restraining had restrained every womb of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

¹⁰ And turn aside anger from thy heart, And cause evil to pass from thy flesh, For the childhood and the age `are' vanity!

³ If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, `Better than he `is' the untimely birth.'

⁴ For in vanity he came in, and in darkness he goeth, and in darkness his name is covered,

⁵ Even the sun he hath not seen nor known, more rest hath this than that.

² Also -- to-day `is' my complaint bitter, My hand hath been heavy because of my sighing.

¹⁸ And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.

¹⁹ As I had not been, I am, From the belly to the grave I am brought,

¹ My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.

² O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!

³ For now, than the sands of the sea it is heavier, Therefore my words have been rash.

⁵ and to Hannah he giveth a certain portion -- double, for he hath loved Hannah, and Jehovah hath shut her womb;

³¹ And Jehovah seeth that Leah `is' the hated one, and He openeth her womb, and Rachel `is' barren;

¹⁷ Because he hath not put me to death from the womb, And my mother is to me -- my grave, And her womb a pregnancy age-during.