18-22 “So why did you have me born?
    I wish no one had ever laid eyes on me!
I wish I’d never lived—a stillborn,
    buried without ever having breathed.
Isn’t it time to call it quits on my life?
    Can’t you let up, and let me smile just once
Before I die and am buried,
    before I’m nailed into my coffin, sealed in the ground,
And banished for good to the land of the dead,
    blind in the final dark?”

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20 Are not my few days(A) almost over?(B)
    Turn away from me(C) so I can have a moment’s joy(D)
21 before I go to the place of no return,(E)
    to the land of gloom and utter darkness,(F)
22 to the land of deepest night,
    of utter darkness(G) and disorder,
    where even the light is like darkness.”(H)

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