Job 10:18

¹⁶ For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

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

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!

¹⁹ 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,

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;

Jeremiah 20:14–18
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
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Job 14:10
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
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Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
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Job 3:10–11
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
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Jeremiah 15:10
Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
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Matthew 26:24
The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.
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