Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?

New American Standard Bible

Why did I not die at birth,
Come forth from the womb and expire?

King James Version

Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

Holman Bible

Why was I not stillborn;
why didn’t I die as I came from the womb?

International Standard Version

Why didn't I die while I was still in the womb, or die while I was being born?

A Conservative Version

Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

Amplified


“Why did I not die at birth,
Come forth from the womb and expire?

Bible in Basic English

Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?

Darby Translation

Wherefore did I not die from the womb, come forth from the belly and expire?

Julia Smith Translation

Wherefore shall I not die from the womb? and I came forth from the belly, and I shall expire.

King James 2000

Why died I not from the womb? why did I not expire when I came out of the womb?

Lexham Expanded Bible

"Why did I not die at birth? [Why] did I [not] come forth from [the] womb and expire?

Modern King James verseion

Why did I not die from the womb, come from the womb and expire?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"Alas, why died I not in the birth? Why did not I perish, as soon as I came out of my mother's womb?

NET Bible

"Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?

New Heart English Bible

"Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

The Emphasized Bible

Wherefore, in the womb, did I not die? From the womb, come forth and cease to breathe?

Webster

Why died I not from the womb? why did I not expire at the time of my birth?

World English Bible

"Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

Youngs Literal Translation

Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
מוּת 
Muwth 
Usage: 839

I not from the womb
רחם 
Rechem 
Usage: 26

why did I not give up the ghost
גּוע 
Gava` 
die, give up the ghost, dead, perish, dead
Usage: 24

יצא 
Yatsa' 
....out, ....forth, bring, come, proceed, go, depart,
Usage: 1068

References

Easton

Fausets

Morish

Context Readings

Job Wishes He Had Died

10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes. 11 Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me? 12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?


Cross References

Job 10:18-19

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

Psalm 22:9-10

But thou art he that took me out of the womb; Thou didst make me trust when I was upon my mother's breasts.

Psalm 58:8

Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away, Like the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.

Psalm 71:6

By thee have I been holden up from the womb; Thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: My praise shall be continually of thee.

Psalm 139:13-16

For thou didst form my inward parts: Thou didst cover me in my mother's womb.

Isaiah 46:3

Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borne by me from their birth, that have been carried from the womb;

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them doth curse me.

Hosea 9:14

Give them, O Jehovah-what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

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