Job 10:18

Job 10:18 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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!
• New International Version (NIV)“Why then did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died before any eye saw me.
• New King James Version (NKJV)‘Why then have You brought me out of the womb? Oh, that I had perished and no eye had seen me!
• New Living Translation (NLT)“‘Why, then, did you deliver me from my mother’s womb? Why didn’t you let me die at birth?

Context of Job 10:18

16And were my head lifted up, you would hunt me like a lion and again work wonders against me. 17You renew your witnesses against me and increase your vexation toward me; you bring fresh troops against me. "Why did you bring me out from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me 19and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave. 20Are not my days few? Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer

Job 10:18 word by word

וְלָ֣מָּה מֵ֭רֶחֶם הֹצֵאתָ֑נִי אֶ֝גְוַ֗ע וְעַ֣יִן לֹא־תִרְאֵֽנִי׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Wherefore then hast thou brought me forthיָצָאyâtsâ' · to come out: produceH3318
• out of the wombרֶ֫חֶםrechem · wombH7358
• Oh that I had given up the ghostגָּוַעgâva‛ · to dieH1478
• and no eyeעַ֫יִן‛ayin · eyeH5869
• had seenרָאָהrâ'âh · to see: seeH7200

Cross-references for Job 10:18

• Job 3:10because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.
• Jeremiah 15:10Woe is me, my mother, that you 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.
• Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day on which I was born! The day when my mother bore me, let it not be blessed!
• Matthew 26:24The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born."
• Job 11:20But 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 14:10But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?

Commentaries on Job 10:18

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 18Wherefore then - Why didst thou give me a being, when thou didst foresee I should be exposed to such incredible hardships? See on Job 3:10; (note), etc.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth - See the notes at Job 3:11.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 10:18

• God
• Life
• Philosophy

In the dictionaries

• Comfort
• Darkness
• Grant
• Ghost

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