NET Bible
"Job Wishes He Had Died at Birth“Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?"
— Job 3:11, NET Bible
“Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?”
“Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me? ”
“"Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?”
“Why did I not die in the womb? why did I not perish when I came out of the belly?”
“Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?”
“Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?”
Let those who curse the day curse it– those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.
Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,
because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes!
Job Wishes He Had Died at Birth“Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?
Why did the knees welcome me, and why were there two breasts that I might nurse at them?
For now I would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peace
with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate,