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Job 10:18

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18–22“So why did you have me born?

I wish no one had ever laid eyes on me!

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

“Why did you bring me out from the womb?

Would that I had died before any eye had seen me

NIVNew International Version (2011)

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

I wish I had died before any eye saw me.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“Why did you bring me out of the womb?

I should have died and never been seen.

NLTNew Living Translation

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

Why didn’t you let me die at birth?

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

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

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!