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 find more reasons to attack me. You become more and more angry with me. You attack me with even greater power. 18Why did you let me be born? I should have died before anyone saw me. It would have been better if I had not been born. Or they should have put me in my grave, immediately after my birth. 20I will only live for a few more days. So leave me alone! Then I may be happy for a moment. 21I will soon go to the dark place where there is no hope. I will never come back from that place.

Job 10:19 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carriedיָבַלyâbal · to conductH2986
• from the wombבֶּ֫טֶןbeţen · belly: wombH990
• to the graveקֶ֫בֶרqeber qibrâh · graveH6913

Cross-references for Job 10:19

• Psalms 58:8Cause them to be like a worm that melts as it moves along. Cause them to be like a child that is born dead and never sees the light of day.

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
• Philosophy

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