“‘ Why, then, did you deliver me from my mother’s womb? Why didn’t you let me die at birth?

“你为何使我出母胎呢？不如我当时气绝，无人得见我；

“你为何使我出母胎呢？甚愿我当时气绝，没有眼睛看见我。

“你为何使我出母胎呢？甚愿我当时气绝，没有眼睛看见我。

你为何让我出母腹？我不如当时就死去，无人会看见我——

你为什么使我出母胎呢？我不如死去，无人得见我，

你為何使我出母胎呢？不如我當時氣絕，無人得見我；

「你為何使我出母胎呢？甚願我當時氣絕，沒有眼睛看見我。

「你為何使我出母胎呢？甚願我當時氣絕，沒有眼睛看見我。

你為何讓我出母腹？我不如當時就死去，無人會看見我——

你為甚麼使我出母胎呢？我不如死去，無人得見我，

『你為甚麼使我出母胎呢？把不得我當時就氣絕，不讓人眼看見我啊！

胡為出我於胎、莫若氣絕、無目見我、

爾胡為生我、何不遄死、勿令人見、

主何為使我出母胎、莫若當初氣絕、無目得以見我、

“ Why then did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died before any eye saw me.

“‘ Why did you bring me out of my mother’s body? I wish I had died before anyone saw me.

“ Why did you bring me out from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me

“ Why did you bring me out of the womb? I should have died and never been seen.

‘ Why then did You bring me out of the womb? If only I had died and no eye had seen me!

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

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

“ Why did You bring me out of the womb? I should have died and never been seen.

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

“ Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!

“‘ Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

Yet I curse the day I was born! May no one celebrate the day of my birth.I curse the messenger who told my father,“ Good news— you have a son!”Let him be destroyed like the cities of old that the Lord overthrew without mercy. Terrify him all day long with battle shouts,because he did not kill me at birth. Oh, that I had died in my mother’s womb, that her body had been my grave!Why was I ever born? My entire life has been filled with trouble, sorrow, and shame.

Curse that day for failing to shut my mother’s womb, for letting me be born to see all this trouble.“ Why wasn’t I born dead? Why didn’t I die as I came from the womb?

For the Son of Man must die, as the Scriptures declared long ago. But how terrible it will be for the one who betrays him. It would be far better for that man if he had never been born!”

“ But when people die, their strength is gone. They breathe their last, and then where are they?

Then I said,“ What sorrow is mine, my mother. Oh, that I had died at birth! I am hated everywhere I go. I am neither a lender who threatens to foreclose nor a borrower who refuses to pay— yet they all curse me.”

But the wicked will be blinded. They will have no escape. Their only hope is death.”