10:18 “Why then did you bring me out from the womb?
I should have died 1
and no eye would have seen me!
20:9 People 2 who had seen him will not see him again,
and the place where he was
will recognize him no longer.
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 tn Heb “the eye that had seen him.” Here a part of the person (the eye, the instrument of vision) is put by metonymy for the entire person.