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Job’s Plea to God

Job 10:19

In 11 translations

BSB
If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
KJV
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
WEB
I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
ASV
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
LSV
I am as [if] I had not been, || I am brought from the belly to the grave,
YLT
As I had not been, I am, From the belly to the grave I am brought,
DBY
I should be as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
DRC
I should have been as if I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.
GNV
And that I were as I had not bene, but brought from the wombe to the graue!
JPS
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
LXXE
and I become as if I had not been? for why was I not carried from the womb to the grave?

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹא־הָיִ֣יתִי אֶהְיֶ֑ה מִ֝בֶּ֗טֶן לַקֶּ֥בֶר אוּבָֽל׃
LXX-Br
καὶ ὥσπερ οὐκ ὢν ἐγενόμην; διατί γὰρ ἐκ γαστρὸς εἰς μνῆμα οὐκ ἀπηλλάγην;

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  • Psalms 58:8Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.

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