Job 10:19

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

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

18Wherefore then, from the womb, didst thou bring me forth? I might have breathed my last, and, no eye, have seen me.

20Are not my days, few?—then forbear, and set me aside, that I may brighten up for a little;

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Cross References

Job 3:16Or that, like an untimely birth hidden away, I had not come into being, like infants that never saw 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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