Job 10:18

Why then have thou brought me forth out of the womb? I would have given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

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!

In Context

17Thou renew thy witnesses against me, and increase thine indignation upon me. Changes and warfare are with me.

19I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

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Cross References

Job 3:11Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

Job 14:10But man dies, and is laid low. Yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day in which I was born. Let not the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.

Matthew Henry on Job 10:15-22

14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. 15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction; 16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me. 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… Read the whole commentary →

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