Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

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

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?

American Standard Version

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

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 closed not the doors of the womb wherein I was, and so hid trouble from mine eyes. 11 Wherefore, in the womb, did I not die? From the womb, come forth and cease to breathe? 12 For what reason, were there prepared for me - knees? and why - breasts, that I might suck?


Cross References

Job 10:18-19

Wherefore then, from the womb, didst thou bring me forth? I might have breathed my last, and, no eye, have seen me.

Psalm 22:9-10

For, thou, art he that severed me from the womb, he that caused me to trust, upon the breasts of my mother;

Psalm 58:8

Like a snail, which melteth away as it goeth, An untimely birth of a woman, which hath not seen the sun:

Psalm 71:6

Upon thee, have I stayed myself from birth, Thou art he that severed me, from the body of my mother, Of thee, shall be my praise - continually.

Psalm 139:13-16

For, thou, didst possess thyself of my reins, thou didst weave me together in the womb of my mother.

Isaiah 46:3

Hearken unto me O house of Jacob, Even all the remnant of the house of Israel, - Who have been borne from birth, Who have been carried from nativity:

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe to me! my mother, That thou didst bear me, A man of litigation and a man of contention to all the land, - I have not lent on interest Nor have they lent on interest to me, Every one, hath treated me with contempt.

Hosea 9:14

Give them, O Yahweh - what wilt thou give? Give them, a miscarrying womb, and breasts dried up.

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