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.
• 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

16And should my head be high, You would hunt me like a lion; And You would show Your power against me again. 17You renew Your witnesses against me And increase Your anger toward me; Hardship after hardship is with me. ‘Why then did You bring me out of the womb? If only I had died and no eye had seen me! 19I should have been as though I had not been, Brought from womb to tomb.’ 20Would He not leave my few days alone? Withdraw from me so that I may have a little cheerfulness

Job 10:18 word by word

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

• Whyמָהmâh mah mâ ma meh · what?H4100
• then did You bringיָצָאyâtsâ' · to come out: produceH3318
• me outיָצָאyâtsâ' · to come out: produceH3318
• of the wombרֶ֫חֶםrechem · wombH7358
• If only I had diedגָּוַעgâva‛ · to dieH1478
• and noלֹאlô' lô' lôh · notH3808
• eyeעַ֫יִן‛ayin · eyeH5869
• had seenרָאָהrâ'âh · to see: seeH7200

Cross-references for Job 10:18

• Job 3:10Because it did not shut the opening of my mother’s womb, Or hide trouble from my eyes.
• Jeremiah 15:10Woe to me, my mother, that you have given birth to me As a man of strife and a man of contention to all the land! I have not lent, nor have people lent money to me, Yet everyone curses me.
• Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day when I was born; May the day when my mother gave birth to me not be blessed!
• Matthew 26:24The Son of Man is going away just as it is written about Him; but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born.”
• Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked will fail, And there will be no escape for them; And their hope is to breathe their last.”
• Job 14:10But a man dies and lies prostrate. A person passes away, 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