Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore.

Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.

And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.

Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.