Job 10:19

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

18Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb: O that I had been consumed that eye might not see me!

20Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? suffer me, therefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little:

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Cross References

Job 3:16Or as a hidden untimely birth I should not be, or as they that being conceived have not seen the light.

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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