Job 10:19

¹⁷ Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

¹⁸ 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!

I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

²⁰ Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

²¹ Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

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
As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
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