Job 10:18

Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!

Majority Standard Bible

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 produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.

19If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.

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Cross References

Job 3:11Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?

Job 14:10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?

Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never 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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