Young's Literal Translation YLT
New International Version NIV
17 Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare [are] with me.
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You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger toward me; your forces come against me wave upon wave.
18 And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.
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“Why then did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died before any eye saw me.
19 As I had not been, I am, From the belly to the grave I am brought,
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If only I had never come into being, or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!
20 Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,
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Are not my few days almost over? Turn away from me so I can have a moment’s joy
21 Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,
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before I go to the place of no return, to the land of gloom and utter darkness,
22 A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade -- and no order, And the shining [is] as thick darkness.'
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to the land of deepest night, of utter darkness and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
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