He said,
“Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
And naked I shall return there.
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away.
Blessed be the name of the Lord.”

Because it did not shut the opening of my mother’s womb,
Or hide trouble from my eyes.

“Why did I not die at birth,
Come forth from the womb and expire?

‘Why then have You brought me out of the womb?
Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!

‘I should have been as though I had not been,
Carried from womb to tomb.’

“Did not He who made me in the womb make him,
And the same one fashion us in the womb?

“Or who enclosed the sea with doors
When, bursting forth, it went out from the womb;

“From whose womb has come the ice?
And the frost of heaven, who has given it birth?