Job 10:18

Why did you lead me out of the womb? If only I had been consumed, so that no eye would ever see me!

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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

17You renew your testimony against me, and you multiply your wrath against me, and these punishments make war within me.

19I should have been as if I had not been: transferred from the womb to the tomb.

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Cross References

Job 3:11Why did I not die in the womb? Having left the womb, why did I not immediately perish?

Job 14:10Truly, when a man dies, and has been left unprotected, and has decayed, I ask you where is he?

Jeremiah 20:14Cursed is the day on which I was born! The day on which my mother gave birth to me: let it not 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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