Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And wherefore didst thou bring Me forth from the belly? I shall expire, and eye shall not see 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,
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.
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.
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 wilt renew thy testimonies before me, and thou wilt increase thy wrath upon me; changes and war with me. 18 And wherefore didst thou bring Me forth from the belly? I shall expire, and eye shall not see me. 19 I shall be as I was not; I shall be brought from the womb to the grave.
Cross References
Job 3:10-11
Because it shut not up the doors of my belly; and shall it hide the labor of mine eyes?
Job 11:20
And the eyes of the unjust shall be consumed, and flight shall perish from them, and their hope a breathing out of the soul.
Job 14:10
And man will die and be weak: and man will expire, and where is he?
Jeremiah 15:10
Wo to me, my mother, for thou broughtest me forth a man of strife and a man of contention to all the earth. I lent not on interest and they lent not to me on interest: they are altogether cursing me.
Jeremiah 20:14-18
Cursed the day which I was born in it; the day which my mother brought me forth shall not be blessed.
Matthew 26:24
Truly the Son of man retires as has been written concerning him; and woe to that man by whom the Son of man is delivered up! it was good for him if that man had not been born.