Job 10:19

I 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.

Translation for Translators

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

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

20I think that [RHQ] there are only a few days for me to remain alive; so ◄allow me to be alone/stop attacking me►, in order that I may be a little cheerful

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Cross References

Job 3:16I wish that I had been buried like a child who died in its mother’s womb and never lived to see 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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