Job 10:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!”
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“Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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!”
King James Version · Public Domain“Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 10:18 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 3:10For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.
- Job 3:11Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?
- Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”
- Job 14:10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
- Jeremiah 15:10Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.
- Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.
- Matthew 26:24The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed. It would be better for him if he had not been born.”
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