Job 10:19

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

¹⁸ Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!

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

²⁰ Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,

²¹ before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom,

Les gjerne versene rundt også, for sammenhengen gir ofte mer enn ett vers alene.

Sammenlign

ÅB: jeg skulle ha vært som om jeg aldri hadde vært til; fra mors liv skulle jeg ha vært båret til graven.
OTB: Jeg skulle ha vært som om jeg ikke hadde vært,
Brakt fra morslivet til graven.’
B1930: jeg skulde ha vært som om jeg aldri hadde vært til; fra mors liv skulde jeg ha vært båret til graven.

BSB: If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
KJV: I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
WEB: I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
ASV: I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
DARBY: I should be as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
BLB: as though I had never come to be—that I came from the womb [and] was carried to the grave!

Psalms 58:8
Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
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