God’s Word Translation
Job 10:18
18“ ‘Why did you take me out of the womb? I wish I had breathed my last breath before anyone had laid eyes on me.
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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Why did you bring me out from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen 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!
Context of Job 10:18
16Like a proud, ferocious lion you hunt me down. You keep working your miracles against me. 17You keep finding new witnesses against me. You keep increasing your anger toward me. You keep bringing new armies against me. “ ‘Why did you take me out of the womb? I wish I had breathed my last breath before anyone had laid eyes on me. 19Then it would be as if I had never existed, as if I had been carried from the womb to the tomb. 20“ ‘Isn’t my life short enough? So stop ⌞this⌟, and leave me alone. Let me smile a little
Read all of Job 10Job 10:18 word by word
וְלָ֣מָּה מֵ֭רֶחֶם הֹצֵאתָ֑נִי אֶ֝גְוַ֗ע וְעַ֣יִן לֹא־תִרְאֵֽנִי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 10:18
- Job 3:10because it did not shut the doors of the womb ⌞from which I came⌟ or hide my eyes from trouble.
- Jeremiah 15:10I’m so miserable! Why did my mother give birth to me? I am a man who argues and quarrels with the whole earth. I have never lent or borrowed anything. Yet, everyone curses me.
- Jeremiah 20:14Cursed is the day that I was born, the day that my mother gave birth to me. May it not be blessed.
- Matthew 26:24The Son of Man is going to die as the Scriptures say he will. But how horrible it will be for that person who betrays the Son of Man. It would have been better for that person if he had never been born.”
- Job 11:20But the wicked will lose their eyesight. Their escape route will be closed. Their only hope is to take their last breath.”
- Job 14:10But a human dies and is powerless. A person breathes his last breath, 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
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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
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