Job 10:18

Wherefore then have you brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me!

Updated King James Version

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 renew your witnesses against me, and increase yours indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

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Cross References

Job 3:11Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the spirit when I came out of the belly?

Job 14:10But man dies, and wastes away: yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me 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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