Job 10:18
16 Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.
17 You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.
Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
19 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,
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
- KJV
- 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!
- WEB
- “‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
- ASV
- Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.
- DARBY
- And wherefore didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? I had expired, and no eye had seen me.
- BLB
- And why did You bring me forth from the womb? Would that I had expired, and an eye had not seen me,
- ÅB
- Hvorfor lot du meg utgå av mors liv? Jeg skulle ha oppgitt ånden, og intet øye skulle ha sett meg;
- OTB
- Hvorfor har Du da brakt meg ut av morslivet?
Om jeg bare hadde dødd, og intet øye hadde sett meg! - B1930
- Hvorfor lot du mig utgå av mors liv? Jeg skulde ha opgitt ånden, og intet øie skulde ha sett mig;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 20:14–18
Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.
Read in contextJob 14:10
But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
Read in contextJob 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”
Read in contextJob 3:10–11
For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.
Read in contextJeremiah 15:10
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.
Read in contextMatthew 26:24
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.”
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