Job 10:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ “ ‘Why did you bring me forth from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ 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

¹⁸ 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)

¹⁸ 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

¹⁸ Why did you let me emerge from the womb? I wish I had died without any eye seeing me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ Why did you lead me out of the womb? If only I had been consumed, so that no eye would ever see me!

Job 10:18 Cross References

Matthew 26:24

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.”

Jeremiah 15:10

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.

Job 14:10

But mortals die and are laid low; humans expire, and where are they?

Job 11:20

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.”

Job 10:19

and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.

Job 23:17

If only I could vanish in darkness, and thick darkness would cover my face!

Psalm 71:6

From my birth I have leaned upon you, my protector since my mother’s womb. My praise is continually of you.