Job 10:18 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁸ Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no 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 goeth, even as it is written of him: but woe unto that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had not been born.

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent on usury, neither have men lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.

Job 14:10

But man dieth, and wasteth away: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

Job 11:20

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, And they shall have no way to flee, And their hope shall be the giving up of the ghost.

Job 10:19

I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

Job 23:17

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

Psalm 71:6

By thee have I been holden up from the womb: Thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: My praise shall be continually of thee.