Job 10:18

Wherefore then, from the womb, didst thou bring me forth? I might have breathed my last, and, no eye, have seen me.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 before me, and dost increase thy vexation with me, Relays—yea an army, is with me.

19As though I had not been, should I have become,—from the womb to the grave, might I have been borne.

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Cross References

Job 3:11Wherefore, in the womb, did I not die? From the womb, come forth and cease to breathe?

Job 14:10Yet, man, dieth, and is prostrate, Yea the son of earth doth cease to breathe, and where is he?

Jeremiah 20:14Accursed, be the day on which I was born,—The day when my mother bare me, let it not 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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