Job 10:18
“Wherfore then hast thou brought me forth out of the wombe? Oh that I had giuen vp the ghost, and no eye had seene me!”
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Job 10:18 Context
16For it increaseth: thou huntest me as a fierce Lion: and againe thou shewest thy selfe marueilous vpon me. 17Thou renuest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation vpon me; Changes and warre are against me. 18Wherfore then hast thou brought me forth out of the wombe? Oh that I had giuen vp the ghost, and no eye had seene me! 19I should haue bene as though I had not bene, I should haue bene caried from the wombe to the graue. 20Are not my dayes few? cease then, and let me alone that I may take comfort a litle,
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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!
- King James Version
'Why then have You brought me out of the womb? Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,
- Basic English Bible
And wherefore didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? I had expired, and no eye had seen me.
- Darby Bible
Why then hast thou brought me forth from the womb? O that I had expired, and no eye had seen me!
- Webster's Bible
'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
- World English Bible
And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.
- Youngs Literal Bible
Wherefore then hast Thou brought me forth out of the womb? Would that I had perished, and no eye had seen me!
- Jewish Publication Society Bible