Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?

Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.

Will you never look away from me, will you not let me alone long enough to swallow my spittle?

If he is uprooted from his place, then that place will disown him, saying, 'I have never seen you!'

I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!

before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

Why do you pursue me like God does? Will you never be satiated with my flesh?

Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.

And another man dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted anything good.

Have you never questioned those who travel the roads? Do you not recognize their accounts --

I will never declare that you three are in the right; until I die, I will not set aside my integrity!

I will maintain my righteousness and never let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for as long as I live.

If his children increase -- it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat.

Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never cease.

if the members of my household have never said, 'If only there were someone who has not been satisfied from Job's meat!' --

If you lay your hand on it, you will remember the fight, and you will never do it again!