Job 10:19

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.”

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BSBPD

“If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“As I had not been, I am, From the belly to the grave I am brought,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 10:19 — 2 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 3:16Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
  2. Psalms 58:8Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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