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!
• 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!
• 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

16If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lion and again display your awesome power against me. 17You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger toward me; your forces come against me wave upon wave. “Why then did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died before any eye saw me. 19If only I had never come into being, or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave! 20Are not my few days almost over? Turn away from me so I can have a moment’s joy

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 3:10for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me to hide trouble from my eyes.
• Jeremiah 15:10Alas, my mother, that you gave me birth, a man with whom the whole land strives and contends! I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.
• Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me not be blessed!
• Matthew 26:24The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born.”
• Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; their hope will become a dying gasp.”
• Job 14:10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and is no more.

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