Job 10:18

Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb: O that I had been consumed that eye might not see me!

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 renewest thy witnesses against me, and multipliest thy wrath upon me, and pains war against me.

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

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Cross References

Job 3:11Why did I not die in the womb, why did I not perish when I came out of the belly?

Job 14:10But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he?

Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day wherein I was borne: 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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