Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Why then have thou brought me forth out of the womb? I would have given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
New American Standard Bible
Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!
King James Version
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!
Holman Bible
I should have died and never been seen.
International Standard Version
So why did you bring me out from the womb? I wish I had died, before anyone had seen me,
American Standard Version
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.
Amplified
‘Why then did You bring me out of the womb?
Would that I had perished and no eye had seen me!
Bible in Basic English
Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,
Darby Translation
And wherefore didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? I had expired, and no eye had seen me.
Julia Smith Translation
And wherefore didst thou bring Me forth from the belly? I shall expire, and eye shall not see me.
King James 2000
Why then have you brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
Lexham Expanded Bible
So why did you bring me forth from the womb? I should have passed away, {and no eye should have seen me}.
Modern King James verseion
Why then have You brought me from the womb? Oh that I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me!
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wherefore hast thou brought me out of my mother's womb? O that I had perished, and that no eye had seen me.
NET Bible
"Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!
New Heart English Bible
"'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
The Emphasized Bible
Wherefore then, from the womb, didst thou bring me forth? I might have breathed my last, and, no eye, have seen me.
Webster
Why then hast thou brought me forth from the womb? O that I had expired, and no eye had seen me!
World English Bible
"'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
Youngs Literal Translation
And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.
Themes
Life » Sacredness of, an inference from what is taught in the law concerning murder » Weary of » Job
Philosophy » Philosophical inductions and deductions relating to God and his providence
Topics
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 10:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Continues His Response To Bildad
17 Thou renew thy witnesses against me, and increase thine indignation upon me. Changes and warfare are with me. 18 Why then have thou brought me forth out of the womb? I would have given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me. 19 I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
Cross References
Job 3:10-11
Because it did not shut up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.
Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no way to flee. And their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit.
Job 14:10
But man dies, and is laid low. Yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
Jeremiah 15:10
Woe is me, my mother, that thou have bore me, a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, nor have men lent to me, [yet] every one of them curses me.
Jeremiah 20:14-18
Cursed be the day in which I was born. Let not the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
Matthew 26:24
The Son of man indeed goes as it is written about him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! It were good for him if that man had not been born.