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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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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