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Job 10:18
Job 10:18 is verse 18 of Job chapter 10, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
King James Version
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!
World English Bible
“‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
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Job 10:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible
16 Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.
17 You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.
18 Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
19 If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
20 Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 3:10For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.
Job 3:11Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?
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.
Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.
Jeremiah 20:15Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, “A son is born to you,” bringing him great joy.
Jeremiah 20:16May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. May he hear an outcry in the morning and a battle cry at noon,
Jeremiah 20:17because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.
Jeremiah 20:18Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?
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.”
Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”
Job 14:10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?