Job 10:19

Job 10:19 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
• New International Version (NIV)If only I had never come into being, or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!
• English Standard Version (ESV)and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.
• New King James Version (NKJV)I would have been as though I had not been. I would have been carried from the womb to the grave.

Context of Job 10:19

17You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave. 18Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me! If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave. 20Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort, 21before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom,

Job 10:19 word by word

כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹא־הָיִ֣יתִי אֶהְיֶ֑ה מִ֝בֶּ֗טֶן לַקֶּ֥בֶר אוּבָֽל׃Read the interlinear

• If onlyכַּאֲשֶׁר'ăsher · as whichH834
• I had neverלֹאlô' lô' lôh · notH3808
• comeהָיָהhâyâh · to beH1961
• but had been carriedיָבַלyâbal · to conductH2986
• from the wombבֶּ֫טֶןbeţen · belly: wombH990
• to the graveקֶ֫בֶרqeber qibrâh · graveH6913

Cross-references for Job 10:19

• Psalms 58:8Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.

Commentaries on Job 10:19

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 19I should have been as though - Had I given up the ghost as soon as born, as I could not then have been conscious of existence, it would have been, as it respects myself, as though I had never been; being immediately transported from my mother's womb to the grave.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 19I should have been carried from the womb to the grave - See the notes at Job 3:16.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-22Verses 14-22 Job did not deny that as a sinner he deserved his sufferings; but he thought that justice was executed upon him with peculiar rigour. His gloom, unbelief, and hard thoughts of God, were as much to be ascribed to Satan's inward temptations, and his anguish of soul, under the sense of God's displeasure, as to his outward trials, and remaining depravity. Our Creator, become in Christ our Redeemer also, will not destroy the work of his hands in…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-221. leave my complaint upon myself--rather, "I will give loose to my complaint" (Job 7:11).Read the comment

Topics related to Job 10:19

• Life
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In the dictionaries

• Comfort
• Darkness
• Grant

Commentaries on Job 10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings