Job 10:18

“'God, why did you allow me to be born? I wish/desire that I had died before anyone [SYN] saw me.

Translation for Translators

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 constantly find more witnesses to testify that I have done what is wrong, and you continually become more angry/perturbed with me. It is as though you are always bringing new troops to attack me.

19I consider that it would have been better if I had been carried directly from my mother’s womb to the grave than for me to live.

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Cross References

Job 3:11“I wish that I had died [RHQ] when I was born— at the time I emerged from my mother’s womb.

Job 14:10But when we people lose all our strength and die, we stop breathing and then we are gone forever.

Jeremiah 20:14But I hope/desire that the day that I was born will be cursed. I do not want anyone to celebrate that day.

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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