Job 10:18 “Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no e…”

Job 10:18

Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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!

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Wherfore then hast thou brought me out of the wombe? Oh that I had perished, and that none eye had seene me!

Darby Translation

And wherefore didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? I had expired, and no eye had seen me.

Young's Literal Translation

And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.

Bible in Basic English

Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,

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Cross references

“hast thou”

Jeremiah 20:14–18 Jeremiah 15:10 Matthew 26:24 Job 3:10 Job 3:11

Jeremiah 20:14–18 · BSB

Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.

Jeremiah 15:10 · BSB

Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.

Matthew 26:24 · BSB

The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed. It would be better for him if he had not been born.”

Job 3:10 · BSB

For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.

Job 3:11 · BSB

Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?

“given up”

Job 11:20 Job 14:10

Job 11:20 · BSB

But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”

Job 14:10 · BSB

But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

17You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.

19If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.

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