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,
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- 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!
- 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.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
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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