Job 10:18

Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,

Bible in Basic English

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

17That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.

19And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.

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Cross References

Job 3:11Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?

Job 14:10But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

Jeremiah 20:14A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.

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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