Job 10:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 “ ‘Why did you bring me forth from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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! Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Why then did You bring me forth out of the womb? Would that I had perished and no eye had seen me! American Standard Version (1901) Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me. Common English Bible Why did you let me emerge from the womb? I wish I had died without any eye seeing me. Catholic Public Domain Version Why did you lead me out of the womb? If only I had been consumed, so that no eye would ever see me! Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? O that I had been consumed that eye might not see me! |
But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last.”
If only I could vanish in darkness, and thick darkness would cover my face!
From my birth I have leaned upon you, my protector since my mother’s womb. My praise is continually of you.
Woe is me, my mother, that you ever bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.
The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that one by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that one not to have been born.”