A Plea for Respite Before Death
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Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.
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I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
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Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
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Before I go whence I shall not return, Evento the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
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The land dark as midnight, The landof the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.
Bible text: American Standard Version (1901) · Public domain