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Job 10:17–18

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17You produce new witnessesC against me

and multiply your anger toward me.

Hardships assault me, wave after wave.D

18“Why did you bring me out of the womb?m

I should have died and never been seen.

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Footnotes

  1. COr You bring fresh troops
  2. D Changes and a host are with me

Cross references

  1. mJb 1:21; 10:18–19; Jr 20:17–18

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

You renew your witnesses against me

and increase your vexation toward me;

you bring fresh troops against me.

“Why did you bring me out from the womb?

Would that I had died before any eye had seen me

NIVNew International Version (2011)

You bring new witnesses against me

and increase your anger toward me;

your forces come against me wave upon wave.

“Why then did you bring me out of the womb?

I wish I had died before any eye saw me.

NLTNew Living Translation

Again and again you witness against me.

You pour out your growing anger on me

and bring fresh armies against me.

“ ‘Why, then, did you deliver me from my mother’s womb?

Why didn’t you let me die at birth?

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

You renew your witnesses against me,

and you increase your vexation against me;

relief forces are against me.

So why did you bring me forth from the womb?

I should have passed away, and no eye should have seen me.

KJV 1900King James Version

Thou renewest thy witnesses against me,

And increasest thine indignation upon me;

Changes and war are against me.

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!