18"Why then did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died before any eye saw me.


In Context

15 If I am guilty-woe to me! Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head, for I am full of shame and drowned in my affliction.

16 If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lion and again display your awesome power against me.

17 You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger toward me; your forces come against me wave upon wave.

18 "Why then did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died before any eye saw me.

19 If only I had never come into being, or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!

20 Are not my few days almost over? Turn away from me so I can have a moment's joy

Job 10:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

10:18Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb: O that I had been consumed that eye might not see me!

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

10:18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:18And wherefore didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? I had expired, and no eye had seen me.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

10:18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:18Why then hast thou brought me forth from the womb? O that I had expired, and no eye had seen me!

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:18|'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 Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

10:18And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:18Why then have you brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!