Job 10:18

In 11 translations

BSB

Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!

KJV

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!

WEB

“‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

ASV

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

LSV

And why from the womb || Have You brought me forth? I expire, and the eye does not see me.

YLT

And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.

DBY

And wherefore didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? I had expired, and no eye had seen me.

DRC

Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb: O that I had been consumed that eye might not see me!

GNV

Wherfore then hast thou brought me out of the wombe? Oh that I had perished, and that none eye had seene me!

JPS

Wherefore then hast Thou brought me forth out of the womb? Would that I had perished, and no eye had seen me!

LXXE

Why then didst thou bring me out of the womb? and why did I not die, and no eye see me,

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Original-language editions

WLC

וְלָ֣מָּה מֵ֭רֶחֶם הֹצֵאתָ֑נִי אֶ֝גְוַ֗ע וְעַ֣יִן לֹא־תִרְאֵֽנִי׃

LXX-Br

Ἱνατί οὖν ἐκ κοιλίας με ἐξήγαγες, καὶ οὐκ ἀπέθανον, ὀφθαλμὸς δέ με οὐκ εἶδε,

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Cross-references most cited first

• Jeremiah 20:14–18Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed. Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, “A son is born to you,” bringing him great joy. May that man be like the cities…
• Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”
• Job 3:10–11For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes. Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?
• 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.
• 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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