10:18 “Why then did you bring me out from the womb?
I should have died 1
and no eye would have seen me!
10:19 I should have been as though I had never existed; 2
I should have been carried
right from the womb to the grave!
1 tn The two imperfect verbs in this section are used to stress regrets for something which did not happen (see GKC 317 §107.n).
2 sn This means “If only I had never come into existence.”