Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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!
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
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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 bringest fresh witnesses against me, and thy wrath increasest thou upon me; very many are the plagues that I am in. 18 Wherefore hast thou brought me out of my mother's womb? O that I had perished, and that no eye had seen me. 19 If they had carried me to my grave as soon as I was born, then should I be now, as though I had never been.
Cross References
Job 3:10-11
because it shut not up the womb that bare me. For then should these sorrows have been hid from mine eyes.
Job 11:20
As for the eyes of the ungodly, they shall be consumed, and not escape: their hope shall be misery and sorrow of mind."
Job 14:10
But as for man; when he is dead, perished and consumed away, what becometh of him?
Jeremiah 15:10
O mother, alas that ever thou didst bear me, an enemy and hated of the whole land: Though I never lent nor received upon usury, yet all men speak evil upon me.
Jeremiah 20:14-18
Cursed be the day wherein I was born! Unhappy be the day, wherein my mother brought me forth!
Matthew 26:24
The son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe be to that man, by whom the son of man shall be betrayed. It had been good for that man, if he had never been born."