Job 10:18
Good News Translation
Why, God, did you let me be born? I should have died before anyone saw me.

New Revised Standard Version
“Why did you bring me forth from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me,

Contemporary English Version
Why did you let me be born? I would rather have died before birth

New American Bible
Why then did you bring me forth from the womb? I should have died and no eye have seen me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? O that I had been consumed, that eye might not see me!

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

hast thou

Job 3:10,11 Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes. . . .

Jeremiah 15:10 Woe is me, my mother: why hast thou borne me a man of strife, a man of contention to all the earth? I have not lent on usury, neither hath any man lent to me on usury: yet all curse me.

Jeremiah 20:14-18 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day in which my mother bore me, be blessed. . . .

Matthew 26:24 The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him. But woe to that man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed. It were better for him, if that man had not been born.

given up

Job 11:20 But the eyes of the wicked shall decay, and the way to escape shall fail them, and their hope the abomination of the soul.

Job 14:10 But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he?

Context
Job's Plea to God
17Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and multipliest thy wrath upon me, and pains war against me. 18Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? O that I had been consumed, that eye might not see me!19I should have been as if I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.…
Cross References
Job 3:11
Why did I not die in the womb? why did I not perish when I came out of the belly?

Job 10:19
I should have been as if I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.

Job 23:17
For I have not perished because of the darkness that hangs over me, neither hath the mist covered my face.

Psalm 71:6
By thee have I been confirmed from the womb: from my mother's womb thou art my protector. Of thee I shall continually sing:

Jeremiah 20:17
Who slew me not from the womb, that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb an everlasting conception.

Job 10:17
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