Tree of Life Version
Job 10:18
18“Why then did You bring me out from the womb? I should have died so no eye would have seen 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
16If my head is held high, You hunt me like a lion, and again work wonders against me. 17You renew Your witnesses against me, and increase Your anger toward me, change and warfare are with me. “Why then did You bring me out from the womb? I should have died so no eye would have seen me. 19If only I had never come into being, or been carried from womb to grave. 20Are not my days few? Then stop, leave me alone so I might have a little joy,
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 3:10For it did not shut the doors of the womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
- Jeremiah 15:10Oy to me, my mother, that you gave birth to me— a man of strife and conflict to all the land! I did not lend or borrow, yet everyone curses me.
- Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day I was born! The day that my mother bore me— may it never be blessed!
- Matthew 26:24The Son of Man indeed goes, just as it is written about 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, and escape will elude them; their only hope is their dying breath.”
- Job 14:10But man dies and is powerless. Man expires—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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